Kristen Stewart and Woody Harrelson's Absurd Comedy Is an Exhausting, Pretentious Nightmare

Kristen Stewart and Woody Harrelson's Absurd Comedy Is an Exhausting, Pretentious Nightmare




Sometimes when you watch a movie, it might be nearly three hours, and yet it can fly by like a breeze. Other times, like in the case with Quentin Dupieux's Full Phil, a movie can come in at a brisk 78 minutes and feel like a slog that steals away half of your day. Irreverent, absurd, and full of verbose dialogue, Full Phil tells the story of a father and daughter attempting to reconnect after years of estrangement on a vacation to Paris. Though the concept is intriguing, as it weaves a fictional black-and-white movie throughout the story that pulls from classic cinema, the result is proof why we need to leave this brand of absurdist humor behind completely — or at least Dupieux should.


Sometimes when you watch a movie, it might be nearly three hours, and yet it can fly by like a breeze. Other times, like in the case with Quentin Dupieux's Full Phil, a movie can come in at a brisk 78 minutes and feel like a slog that steals away half of your day. Irreverent, absurd, and full of verbose dialogue, Full Phil tells the story of a father and daughter attempting to reconnect after years of estrangement on a vacation to Paris. Though the concept is intriguing, as it weaves a fictional black-and-white movie throughout the story that pulls from classic cinema, the result is proof why we need to leave this brand of absurdist humor behind completely — or at least Dupieux should.

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