Single White Album

Ingrid Goes West

Crit

OK, I've seen more disturbing films about genocide, and about war. Famine, yeah. Ecocide, maybe. But you get past the heavy hitters in the woozy-making genre, you get down to one fucked-up person making you cringe, making you desperate to shake some sense into her, making you somehow have sympathy for her no matter how awful she is, and there aren't many to compare. There's Young Adult, which comes to mind in part because neither that film nor this one ever flinches from its misanthropic principles, and I'd call Aubrey Plaza here as courageous as Charlize Theron there except that Plaza has already built a body of unpleasant work, whereas Theron had more to lose.

Still: wow.

Trailers

• Gemini--Crime & mystery. Skeptical.
• Beach Rats--Just released in NYC to strong reviews.
• Last Flag Flying--Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne, and Bryan Cranston in a buddy road movie. A possibility.