Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip portrays the New York creative scene not as a place filled with intellectual, if rudderless, thinkers and dreamers but as a vipers’ pit of backstabbing careerists. These are the sort of people who would sacrifice every personal relationship they have just to get a short story in The New Yorker, much less become a …

[xrr rating=1.0/5]A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III is the sort of film that a certain subset of warped cineastes absolutely long for: a jaw-dropping debacle that fails not because of ineptitude or laziness, but because of preposterous pretension and a landslide of misguided creativity. Anyone can make a low-concept Adam Sandler comedy or a drippy Nicholas Sparks …