Yokels Attempt To Hide A Deadly Mistake In 'The Death Of Dick Long'
Daniel Scheinert — half of the team behind 2016's Swiss Army Man — directs this sweet but "lumpy and formless" dark comedy.
Covering up a crime is hard work when you do everything half-assed. The Death of Dick Long, a gnarly new dark comedy about some misbehaving adult boys in Alabama, imagines what would happen if the dumbest people alive wound up with a dead body on their hands.
The film's endless chain of bad human behavior is both self-incriminating and deeply taboo. It's like iffeels lumpy and formless, jammed with repetitive scenes and narrative shortcuts â a sort of half-hearted shrug that suggests the movie learned the wrong lessons from its ill-prepared antiheroes.
