Phoenix goes for broke and it's easy to get sucked into the melodrama, but I'm not surprised that a Fassbinder riff where the central points remain unspoken doesn't quite stack up.

Every now and then a Twitch clip of Hikaru Nakamura calculating a 15-move sequence in real time goes viral. That wow factor is a huge part of why chess has blown up so much in 2020, and it's precisely what's missing here.

very scary

Darren Aronofsky is the corniest motherfucker alive.