Ambitious to a fault, Aster makes use of an ever expanding and shifting cast to justify the excessive 146-minute runtime with well-observed comic details and visual payoffs.

the drawn-out pacing, excessive run time, and lack of explicit sexual encounters deprive the well-intentioned picture from generating genuine dramatic interest.

What P.T. Anderson Used or Did Not Out of Pynchon’s Novel

‘I Sent Them the Script’ and They Said, ‘Let’s Do This’–Tarantino