Alongside him, in more ways than one, is a revelatoryViola Davisas his wife Rose.
Confrontational and chaotic, the film is as frequently blunt as it is brutally beautiful.
Tightly written and sharply funny, it captures a portrait of youth that is sentimental without being superficial.
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Alongside him are the equally outstandingJonah HillandMargot Robbiewho steal every scene in this bonkers ride of a film.
It also is darkly hilarious, letting scenes of drug-addled incompetence play out in all their glory.
However, by the time the shoe drops, the laughter has long since faded into stunned silence.
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In its place, we see a man and the system at large revealed in all its brokenness.
It finds entertainment in the eccentricity and dread in the looming collapse that it is all building to.
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