"Gael Garcia Bernal plays a sociopathic outsider threatening the apparently perfect life of his long-lost preacher father (William Hurt). In what now looks like a dry run for There Will Be Blood, Dano is the earnest son campaigning for creationism to be taught at school, and sideswiped by the emergence of his sinister half-brother. Variety labelled the film noxious. It's undoubtedly nasty, but Dano helps to lend it a pulse."
"Superficially macabre, this buddy-movie with Dano as the stranded shipwreck survivor and Daniel Radcliffe as the corpse who washes ashore is surprisingly touching. Sure, it is full of the sort of manufactured eccentricity that would reach fever pitch in the same directors' next film, Everything Everywhere All at Once. But even as Dano is using Radcliffe's body as a water dispenser, a hunting weapon and a fart-powered raft, a palpable tenderness emerges. They make a lovely couple."
Paul Dano portrays a sociopathic outsider in James Marsh's disquieting narrative debut, threatening his long-lost preacher father's apparently perfect life. Dano plays an earnest son campaigning for creationism at school who is sideswiped by a sinister half-brother, lending a pulse to a noxious, nasty film. In a superficially macabre buddy-movie, Dano's stranded shipwreck survivor forms a surprisingly touching pairing with Daniel Radcliffe's corpse, where manufactured eccentricity gives way to palpable tenderness. Dano also embodies hushed melancholy as Burt Fabelman in Spielberg's autobiographical saga and menaces Gotham as the Riddler, evidencing wide range.
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