Phoenix goes for broke and it's easy to get sucked into the melodrama, but I'm not surprised that a Fassbinder riff where the central points remain unspoken doesn't quite stack up.

Every now and then a Twitch clip of Hikaru Nakamura calculating a 15-move sequence in real time goes viral. That wow factor is a huge part of why chess has blown up so much in 2020, and it's precisely what's missing here.

very scary

A film that provokes an intense melancholy by recalling all the moments in life that have already passed, and by offering a wisp of a future in which those moments will have increased tenfold in number.