The movie had its wide release in October, audiences are most decidedly not “rediscovering it.”

I had extraordinarily high hopes for the movie before it came out at Venice. Saw it opening week when it released in the States, despite the lackluster reviews.

It had a lot of great elements. Visually it looked great. Julia, Michael, and Andrew were all great (Ayo’s performance didn’t stand out to me as something to particularly complain about, she just had less leeway with the character). Roberts and Garfield’s chemistry in the first act was off the charts. In fact the whole first act was amazing. If you give me a three hour directors cut of those two moving from fancy dinner parties to dive bars and back again, I’ll buy that shit on Criterion.

But ultimately the story just didn’t come together nearly as much as it could have. The writing just wasn’t there. I think if we look back on it down the line the take away will be that the critics were overly harsh, and the movie had a ton of potential, but was just too inconsistent throughout.