Harmony Korine’s New Anti-Movie Aggro Dr1ft Looks Cool For a Few Minutes

This review was originally published on September 2, 2023 out of the Venice Film Festival. We are recirculating it now that Aggro Dr1ft is in theaters.

I’m not sure Harmony Korine actually knows how to make a film, though I say that with some affection. His best works consciously refuse to become movies. The Beach Bum (his masterpiece) keeps flirting with narrative, or at least trying to, while constantly drifting wonderfully in all sorts of other, trippy directions.