VENGEANCE

 This terrific little movie is going to disappear without trace because it's virtually unclassifiable. It's a comedy, it's a thriller and it's a satire about Trump's America, the so-called intelligentsia and social media in general and it's all the work of one man, the extremely gifted B. J. Novak who wrote it, directed it and plays the lead. He's a writer for the New Yorker who suddenly finds himself both exploiting and helping the family of a former girlfriend, (more of a casual hook-up, actually), who has been found dead in rural Texas. Did she OD or was she murdered?

Summoned to her funeral by her red-neck brother, (an excellent Boyd Holbrook), who intends for the two of them to avenge her death, he turns a very awkward situation into a podcast entitled 'Dead White Girl'. It's a funny and smart movie though perhaps Novak is aiming at too many targets; sometimes he misses but for a movie aimed at a general mass audience it shows real flair. Best of all it goes places you don't expect it to. It may not burn up the box-office now but I can see cult status beckoning.