Cinema Science

This is the first paragraph of Roger Ebert's review of Mister Lonely. A film I wanted to like but just couldn't. He sums up my feelings of the film in these few sentences better than I could in a proper review.

I wish there were a way to write a positive two-star review. Harmony Korine's "Mister Lonely" is an odd, desperate film, lost in its own audacity, and yet there are passages of surreal beauty and preposterous invention that I have to admire. The film doesn't work, and indeed seems to have no clear idea of what its job is, and yet (sigh) there is the temptation to forgive its trespasses simply because it is utterly, if pointlessly, original.