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Film: Inherent Vice

It seems Birdman has competition for worst film of the year. This is an incoherent, unfunny mess and the only question for me is whether auteur filmmakers are betraying the audience or whether the audience betray them by offering only unfettered praise for whatever they dish out, like undisciplined parents with insufferable children.

PTA is regressing as a filmmaker. Forget the mess of script, the direction isn't even good in this film. Just long scenes of characters talking in close up. The acting is serious and perhaps good, as are the costumes and makeup and some good Neil Young songs, but who really cares?