Velvet Buzzsaw
In a year that saw NFTs suddenly become the talk of the town under the auspices of empowering artists within a system that typically doesn’t value them for their creative efforts, Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw’s message about similar ideas hits somewhat differently. As the lives of Morf Vandewalt and the rest of the art-obsessed people in his circle are increasingly destroyed by the presence of a cursed collection of paintings, none of them can accept how they’ve all played direct hands in their own downfalls. Horrific as Velvet Buzzsawi’s supernatural murders were, the film’s living, breathing humans were the monsters we were meant to understand as the toxic presences to be wary of, an ugly idea that feels even more necessary to be mindful of now than ever before. – Charles Pulliam-Moore
