Silver Bullets

A nonsensical disaster, Silver Bullets follows Kate Lyn Sheil’s Claire as her life begins to unravel after being cast in a low-budget werewolf movie. Filmmaker Joe Swanberg delivers an aggressively aimless and hopelessly low-rent endeavor that’s almost entirely lacking in interesting, attention-grabbing elements, as Silver Bullets, which runs 69 minutes but feels at least twice that long, comes off as an entirely-improvised student film that’s made all-the-more intolerable by an ongoing emphasis on head-scratching, infuriatingly avant-garde elements. Swanberg’s meandering modus operandi results in scene after scene of the various one-dimensional characters engaging in excruciating small talk, with the third act’s incongruous horror elements unable to alleviate the pervasively tedious atmosphere and, ultimately, emblematic of Swanberg’s misbegotten sensibilities – with the end result a thoroughly amateurish trainwreck that one endures rather than enjoys.

no stars out of ****