Lars von Trier’s “Kingdom”
Absurdist, Twin Peaks-inspired Danish melodrama-horror is a deliciously unpredictable joyride so long as you can roll with the insanity
Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness”
Half-baked with no surprises, this tedious black comedy lacks the punch of Östlund’s earlier work
Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise”
Don DeLillo by way of Spielberg before straying into darkness in this absurdist look at modern American culture
David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam”
A Big Lebowski-style caper with Christian Bale’s Columbo-esque Burt standing in for The Dude in a story covering the rise of fascism that never quite feels weighty as it should while never ceasing to entertain