The latest from David O. Russell (Spanking the Monkey/Joy) from earlier this year. What amounts to a trio of friends (Christian Bale, a doctor, John David Washington, a lawyer, & Margot Robbie, a nurse/artist) who meet during WWI, return back to the States in various stages of mental & physical debilitation only to be corralled into a murder mystery & the efforts of a fascist cabal to influence an American politician, Robert De Niro, before he gives a major speech. In order to get to that final end game where the players come together to right the various wrongs, the viewer has to wade through multiple plotlines, characters (inhabited by many heavy hitters of cinema today) & digressions that at times you forget if you're watching a pulpy narrative or the screen tests for same. I guess the best the film can claim, at least for the beleaguered concert promoters out there, their current foil, Taylor Swift, who makes a fleeting appearance in this swirl, gets a particularly gruesome sendoff.