while it's visually arresting, it's a disappointment. It's too on the nose as a political allegory, and too lacking in coherent narrative to satisfy as a hipster comedy-drama
all of which is to say that "The Bad Batch," a messy, sunbaked pop-culture cobbler written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, is both a bummer and a blast
by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]
