Black Bear

God save us from hipsters making indie movies about themselves. You see a movie has Aubrey Plaza and Sarah Gadon, you’re gonna think, “What’s not to like?” Well, plenty. Another painfully “indie” movie that seems to be in love with itself, and what’s worse, a movie nominally about hipsters making an indie movie, which, being a painfully indie hipster movie, is mostly a setting for them to do nothing but argue with each other and be dysfunctional, because apparently that’s some sort of statement or supposed to be entertaining. The only way this movie could be less interesting is if they cut out all the irritating characters, which would leave us with a shot of an empty cabin for 90 minutes. (NB it was long after this that I discovered Plaza’s also catastrophically pretentious and irritating “A Night With Beverly Luff-Linn”, and began to realize she may be a warning sign, not an attraction.)