I believe I’ve just watched the funniest movie in at least a few years. Every single scene, every single interaction, is shot through with dark humor. It really doesn’t get any darker than this.
It’s the kind of material which a lesser movie might have tried to satire or (worse!) turn into a fictionalized documentary.
But no, an accurate retelling is all that works here, preserving all of the idiocy, all of the despair, all of the absurdity— and there is so much absurdity here!
My favorite movie of the year, by far.
Abacus Noir 