This darling of elite film critics and pretentious film students deserves a good Riffing. From its slow, boring pace that should have garnered it the title Zzzival, to its contrived ending that should have just been
Denis Villeneuve yelling at the camera, "Hey, look at me, I'm so brilliant!," to the overacting on the part of Amy Adams as she enters the alien surfboard and stares at either an Instagram filter or an old 35m camera lens, there is plenty of fun that can be had with this Oscar bait. And at the end, please do your best Gandalf impression as you say, "I suppose you think that was terribly clever."