Lazy at best

Rating: 2/10 (18 February 2019)

Billed as a quirky period piece, I wanted (and tried) to like this one but just couldn't. A story about power (and sometimes the related madness, jealousy and betrayal that accompany it - though none of these ideas held together very long), the writers picked an obscure queen as the subject and threw together a potpourri of heavy satire, weird cinematography (the fish-eye lens drove me nuts), and undeveloped characters. All for what? An "artsy" film? It just felt lazy. I like Emma Stone and the best thing I can say about this movie is she did a decent job at making one character less uninteresting than the rest.