mother! (2017)
Well, I guess it was never likely I was going to slide in with a C+ review of this film, known as it is for strong, divided opinions. Looking at jdc's top 100, dark and often discombobulating cinematic vision is very common and this certainly fits that bill. That is much less my taste.
I'm not sure if this is a film that exactly disproves my sense that you know if you'll like a film after 15 minutes, because at 15 minutes I didn't like it and ultimately I didn't like it. But at the 3/4 mark of the film I at least somewhat got a grasp for what it was trying to do, even if I found the way it went about it too completely off-putting to appreciate it.*
I saw mention of it as a tortured artist-muse sort of dynamic, and there is certainly some of that, making my viewings for the week a thematic double feature with Phantom Thread. But once the biblical themes sunk in for me, it certainly felt more of a critique of religion's corruption of nature (or science...apparently Aronofsky blamed the lack of success of the film on people not getting science or something), with the God-artist in part to blame, than something with the artistic reverence of Phantom Thread. Or maybe that critique was just a front for the creator myth after all, which is less fulfilling. I don't know.
*This could be a film that grows over time when the immediate visceral disgust fades and the message lingers. Ask me again in a few months.