Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry, 2018)

Your tolerance for this may depend on your ability to withstand the thorough unpleasantness of the main character, a bombed-out 1990s alt.rock singer/guitarist portrayed indelibly by the ever-great Elisabeth Moss. She's truly repulsive. But I love identifying with secondary characters...or no one, default mode for many gay cinemagoers so I found it easy to swallow her nastiness. Perhaps even more difficult to take, the film lifts its structure from the Shakespearean five-act play which makes for an unflinching heaviness. I know I'm not selling this but it took me.

Grade: B+