OPUS

Neil Smith

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 103 minutes ▸ Director Mark Anthony Green ▸ Cast Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis Obsessive fandom, celebrity culture and the slavish sycophancy it generates are the broad targets of a muddled satire that takes its time building up to a gorily murderous finale. Cut from the same cloth as Blink Twice and The Menu, Mark Anthony Green’s feature debut boasts some queasily unsettling moments and a twisted set-piece involving bizarre puppet theatre. By the time Opus reaches its curiously muted conclusion, however, one wonders if its writer/director truly has a handle on what he’s trying to say. That’s not a problem for its ambitious heroine Ariel (Ayo Edebiri), a young journalist fed up with being passed over at her Rolling Stone-esque…

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