Working with the cinematographer Scott Moore, McKenzie frames her characters with a radical obliqueness, visually conveying their wounded tenderness and stifled fury and evoking mortal struggles with minuscule gestures. (rottentomatoes.com)
Natalie Portman's Oscar - winning performance aside, Black Swan remains as alluring today as when it divided critics back in 2010, its intertextual obliqueness and visceral symbolism commanding our repeat attention. (lwlies.com)
Paul Thomas Anderson's film is without doubt the oddest romcom of all time, suspended in a hinterland between old - fashioned screwball antics, quirky indie romance and outright arthouse obliqueness. (timeout.com)