My brain hurts.

There's a difference between a powerful performance and a forceful performance. Too often, the performances within Fences swerve between these two notions, creating a striking inconsistency. This is with one exception, that of the restrained, elegant, willful performance of Viola Davis.

Adam Sandler: "I want to make a movie that's racist."

Netflix: "About racism?"

Sandler: "No, just racist."

Netflix: "Ok, sounds great."

It earned the laughs, the tears and the cheers. Above all, Me and Earl and the Dying girl is earnest and quite wonderful. Also, its in-movie obsession with Werner Herzog warmed my heart.