10 Most Disappointing Horror Movies Of 2019 (So Far)

5. Velvet Buzzsaw

It's tempting to look at Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in Velvet Buzzsaw, or the collection of oddball characters and proclaim it a genius, grotesque work commenting on the commodification of art, but that would be wrong. Because no matter how good Gyllenhaal is or how good some of the individual pieces are, the film fundamentally fails to be a sum of its parts rather sadly.

The problem is that it never quite manages not to become the thing that it seems to be complaining about most. It's never as clever as it thinks it is, never avoids being as hollow as the vapid art and art community it takes aim at and while parts of it are enjoyably silly, it doesn't go far enough.

This was presented as an American Psycho in the art-world (with some supernatural oddity in the Patrick Bateman role), but it just ended up being an only okay curio you'd pause at in a gallery before shrugging a bit and moving on.