This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The reason Todd Haynes is Todd Haynes instead of some jerkoff is when the scene comes along where the Zoomer kid is disgusted that the cusp Gen-X/elder millennial actress is drawn to moral ambiguity, he lets her cook for a couple seconds. He doesn't slosh his martini bellowing about how you damn kids these days need to learn about Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He just lets her have that moment.
Which is par for the course for his career; the list…