Review

Chosen both by IndieWire and The Village Voice as the best film of the year without a distributor, Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel might also be the most unpleasant. It’s actually the most entertaining unpleasant film I’ve seen in years. Perry and his co-writer, Carlen Altman, play a semi-estranged brother and sister on a road trip in a trash-strewn car to move her stuff out of her lover-professor’s apartment. At rat-tat-tat speeds, they verbally flay each other before they’re undermined in turn by ex-boyfriends, crushes, and former schoolmates. Yet the vibe is ickily erotic. — David Edelstein