On the surface it sounds promising: a 2.5 hour movie with a stellar actor cast and an interesting setting in the golden era of hollywood. Then you watch the movie and scene after scene characters go about their mundane lives in their own isolated plotlines. They do exciting things like repair a broken antenna, drive around, rehearse lines and go to the cinema to watch movies of themselves. Does any of this go somewhere? No, not really. In fact, so little happens that you could cut half of the film and no one would notice.

Now this absence of any sort of overarching plot is presumably deliberate choice, but even within that style this is just not well executed. There is nothing of interest to fill the void, save for maybe a handful scenes that the actors manage to salvage with their performances. Everything else is mostly just waiting around, which unsurprisingly is not very entertaining.