A lot of the established ones (the ones whose full time job is reviewing films; hopefully after watching them fully) are deliberately and often needlessly contr

A lot of the established ones (the ones whose full time job is reviewing films; hopefully after watching them fully) are deliberately and often needlessly contrarian. And then there are the “forced” art filmmakers. The kind who wanted to make an art film since the day zero of film school. An “art” film for sure. No conviction, no original idea (if any idea at all), no coherence (that’s actually a recipe now), definitely no story. Shoddy camera work becomes experimental cinematography, bad acting is termed as realistically absurd way of channelling the character. And that’s what they actually make - not a film, but an art film. Film festivals love such films - it should just check more than few boxes of weird. These two kinds often complement each other.