I can absolutely understand why a film this specific and weird would not be to someone's taste. I can get why people think it's bad, not least of which is that it's flawed. But I can't even begin to get the total critical teabagging of a film that has so many great performances, if nothing else. Yeah, it's elliptical to the point of opacity in places, yes, it has a bit of a difficult plot (though both these things go to the film's themes!), but how can you have no warmth in your heart for a film where Toby Jones very homosexually says he has "a high tolerance for pleasure"? What did the cinematography ever do to you? Did Anne Hathaway mug your mother?

A great, softly surreal political thriller about empire, liberalism and the end of democracy in America, if you let it be.