Did not enchant me, I'm afraid

Rating: 6/10 (12 February 2018)

I'm not going to smash this film with a super-low rating, but this is where my patience with Oscar nominated movies sometimes runs out.
When I pause a movie half-way through to take a break, for whatever reason, it's a bit of a dud IMO. What I couldn't do was suspend reality at one moment but accept the endless possibilities the next, or tolerate the constant switches between plausible and 'not a chance'. I couldn't decide whether I was watching a 1950's detective/horror movie or some sort of crazy fantasy epic, and the music was super-really-boring too and didn't enhance the film or draw me into it at all, and the strange need for nudity which wasn't necessary either, and which turned a rather wacky kid's film into something bordering on absurd and failed noire, which ultimately left me cold because I didn't find it loving, erotic or stimulating.
It does have some beautiful cinematography, great acting, interesting scenes and other enchanting aspects to it, so not a super-low rating from me, just miss-ably average Oscar nominee material.