Velvet Buzzsaw
Kevin Y

Review by Kevin Y

Velvet Buzzsaw 2019

★½

Watched 02 Feb 2019

The worst movie I've seen since Life Itself (though still better), which is quite fitting given both assemble incredible casts and then subsequently hack away at their talent until they're but shells of those we know and love. This works neither as a horror movie nor as a satire, and it struggles to even be called a movie given it has no sense of structure, character, or pacing whatsoever. It's just an obnoxious hodgepodge of pseudo intellectual quotes that aggressively wink at the audience until you exhaustedly check the time remaining in the film and realize you've only advanced 2 minutes past the last time you checked. It's just plain baffling in a horrible way, completely devoid of energy or momentum, and a victim/proponent of the very things it purports to be critiquing. For a movie with a ton of strange yet exciting potential, its greatest sin is just being boring beyond belief. How the same guy wrote Nightcrawler is something I will never comprehend.

GRADE: D+

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