ENTERTAINMENT
Rick Alverson

O.V. English

A stand-up comic is on tour in the miscellaneous dives and dumpy venues of the Mojave Desert. It’s a miserable life, with performances to match. This depressive ghost wanders a lost world, meeting a motley cast of creepy people (including a particularly memorable one played by Michael Cera). In this world in which humanity has fallen between the cracks, the filthy nightmare of an already-dead clown, America watches itself and viewers lose themselves.

By all accounts, this film...