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    Movie review: Ruben Östlund's 'Square' is a virtuoso satire of modern art world

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Oct 27, 2017 4 minutes

    The title of "The Square," the Swedish writer-director Ruben Ostlund's savagely entertaining new movie, refers to a 4-by-4-meter illuminated box etched in the cobblestones outside the X-Royal, a venerable if entirely fictional museum of contemporary art in Stockholm. The purpose of this exhibit is to promote a vague, universal notion of human empathy, as summed up by a placard bearing the remarkably straight-faced declaration "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring."

    The movie "The Square" may be many things - a high-wire ensemble comedy, a vivid character study, a tirelessly sustained volley of ideas - but it is no one's idea of sanctuary. When

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