Casey Affleck was one of the millions surprised by Joaquin Phoenix's abrupt announcement that he was retiring from acting to focus on rap, but he's the only one who picked up a camera to document the carnage at point-blank range. The resulting film is the ugliest portrait of a celebrity you've ever seen, one that sprints past self-denigrating squirm comedy to a dark, dark place packed with drugs, whores, failure, and feces. Even if it's a hoax, it's no hoax. (See Movie Times: thestranger.com/film)