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13. The Gallerist
The Gallerist is a new dark comedy-thriller from Cathy Yan (Birds of Prey), in which gallerist Polina Polinski (Natalie Portman) witnesses the grisly death of an obnoxious art influencer (Zach Galifianakis) at her gallery and decides to pass the corpse off as an art installation with her assistant Kiki (Jenna Ortega).
No points for guessing that Yan's film is a none-too-subtle satire of the art world, not unlike Dan Gilroy's Velvet Buzzsaw back in 2019, and also like that film its recent Sundance premiere sparked some of the most wildly polarised reviews of the entire festival.
Some were left baffled by Yan's on-the-nose social commentary while others found it to be a refreshingly broad, to-the-point offering from a rising auteur filmmaker.
While The Gallerist has evidently fallen short of the lofty awards hopes many had for it when the project was first announced, it still sounds like one of the most intriguingly odd films of the year.