Decidedly not the movie the trailers advertised, but something more oblique.

Maybe I need to chew on it longer, but it feels as if the message that Garland is trying to say — besides “photojournalism is a living nightmare” — is very muddied. 

Plemons kills it for his one appearance, and the movie is nothing if not harrowing. Just be prepared to stew on the What Does It All Mean of it all.