"Bleurgh."

I don't really know what this was, and it didn't do a good job of trying to make me care.

The performances are tremendous.

The central relationship is also tremendous...for a couple brilliant scenes.

The rest of the movie is good as slice-of-life stuff goes, but when you remember what the movie's supposed to be focusing on, a lot of it ends up feeling a little random.

The filler is nuanced, realistic, and well-done...but I could still tell it was filler.

(shoutout to it for being a lesbian-themed movie where parents and husbands, while present, aren't villains keeping them apart, though. it doesn't make the movie less frustrating to watch, but it's a change of pace at least.)

"Yeah, some of our clothes are from victims. You might bite someone and then, you think, 'Oooh, those are some nice pants!'"

Excellent, riveting film. Feels like Hitchcock made a Jazz Musician Psychological Drama, but slicker, wound even tighter, etc. Most intense movie theater experience of 2014 so far. Feels like a Best Picture Front-runner, to me anyway. Only con: Its early, sudden ending feels like a cop-out.