Doug Liman’s The Derwatt Identity, a staggeringly slapdash Highsmith adaptation about throwing together a slapdash impersonation/forgery con with the world’s dumbest art hoes. It’s by no means the neatest of Highsmith’s plots but she solved a lot of problems by picking up the Derwatt con in medias res, rather than trying to do what this movie does by setting up all the characters plus the outlandish plot business in the first fifteen minutes. My heart hurts for Dafoe, the only well-cast…

For Your Consideration: Outstanding Production Design, in a film that is in its way about production design. Serves as a subtle rebuke to the symmetric, #OnePerfectShot trend in horror films (cf. Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, no offense) by walking through a day in the life of an assistant who must compose every detail of her boss's life just so; this is not to say, however, that everything must have a clean and spotless appearance. Jane tells the HR rep (Matthew…