Ari Aster. Eddington.

 Weird and too long, it is still a wonderful movie. The movie shows an American dysfunction of the Trump era much better than the misguided (or decimated by censors) Alex Garland's "Civil War". The only defect is that Joaquin Phoenix playing asthmatic sheriff and would-be mayor imitates lisp so much that half of his monologues are barely heard.

Elio.

     

       Visually appealing and inventive, especially when alien lifeforms are concerned movie, which is pasted from already existent storylines (are not all storylines exhausted at this day and age?). For instance a conflict between a brutal, but loving father and a tender son was a centerpiece of "Shark Tale" where it was probably a coded language for gaiety. The pangs of adolescence were a part of great number of cartoons, for instance a brilliant "Inside Out". 

The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson.

   

      The problem with Wes Anderson as is with his youth pal Noah Baumbach (and P. T. A. Anderson) is that they rarely leave their comfort zone with their subsequent movies turn into a replica of their previous masterpieces. 

    Great acting talents (Hanks, Johansson, Amalric, Cumberbatch) are wasted in the remaking of his well-beaten tropes. Cumberbatch is especially pathetic in his faux beard, obviously designed haphazardly for him not to look, well, like Benedict Cumberbatch.