TLDR: Genre-bending gothic ghost story exploring topics around creative partnership, artistic agency, and the rifts in relationships integral to our lives caused by ego and resentment. Visually it's incredibly compelling, each shot is beautiful and thought-provoking, but the movie relies its story-telling too heavily on visual allegories imo, leaving a lot of its plot up to interpretation (which is just—personally—not my cup of tea). And while the performances were genuinely incredible, I found the emotional conflict of the characters difficult to…

TLDR; During first watch this movie felt interesring, fun, entertaining… Robert and Zendaya’s chemistry’s fun to watch on screen, but it’s hard to look past some of the narrative choices around race and gender. I appreciate its premise being conductive of conversations surrounding the unsympathetic and unforgiving nature of cancel culture and performative morality, but ultimately, it leaves most of its promised provocative themes unexplored and sidelined for the entertainment of a comedy of errors and I still can’t tell…