How did this miss?!

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2019)

Dystopian future film by the man who brought us Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. A story and narrative structure that defies genre classification. Colin Farrell looking like Bizzaro World Colin Farrell. A slightly-unsettling, detached narration to match the slightly-unsettling, detached acting. A bold, satirical take on relationships. People turning into animals. John C. Reilly.
These are all great reasons to love- or want to love- The Lobster. Unfortunately, all of those ingredients turned into an endlessly horrible slog that felt an hour longer than its running time. If your movie defies classification because it's like nothing anyone's ever seen before, that's fantastic. If your movie defies classification because it's too depressing to be a comedy, too cynical to be a romance, too absurd to be a drama, and too dull to be a thriller, you haven't broken ground. You've just made a movie that's bad in lots of different ways.