<em>The Mountain </em>Is a Strange and Alienating Satire
Jeff Goldblum gives an electrifying performance as a lobotomist traveling through 1950s America in Rick Alverson’s caustic new film.
Rick Alverson’s new film , which is set sometime in the 1950s, somewhere in the United States, is both an extremely stylized and mordantly accurate portrayal of its time and place. The hero is Andy (played by Tye Sheridan), a glassy-eyed youth who is as passive as a protagonist can get; he spends most of the movie staring into the middle distance while bizarre things happen in front of him. If that description makes sound strange and alienating, it
