Review: Andrew Garfield gets lost in the L.A. noir puzzles of 'Under the Silver Lake'

In the cheerfully muddled L.A. noir "Under the Silver Lake," Sam (Andrew Garfield), a young slacker-sleuth trying to find a missing woman, gets sprayed in the face by a skunk. It's a rare act of animal self-defense in this sprawling detective fiction, whose critter casualties include a fallen squirrel and several murdered dogs. But Sam doesn't let the stench of failure get the better of him; just as Jake Gittes was left with a gruesome nose injury for most of "Chinatown," so the odor of skunk will follow Sam around the rest of the movie, prompting a chorus of variations on the question "What stinks?"

For some, the answer might be the movie itself, which was supposed to open last June but