a mediocre Netflix production.

Agreed about the point of it oddly feeling like a mediocre b with a few well known actors.

I didn't care for its portayal of the art scene though. I was very put off by the collection of pretentious, narcissistic fruitcakes. Virtually every character was unlikable.

Velvet Buzzsaw was written by Dan Gilroy, though. And Mute was co-written by Duncan Jones. Apostle, written and directed by Gareth Evans, also has many of the same flaws as these other movies. So you can't solely blame Netflix for pawning bad scripts on these directors

I think what's really going on is that Netflix is buying these scripts that writer/directors can't get made with studios. They are so desperate for content and to be taken seriously in the film world that they are allowing these filmmakers to churn out self-indulgent movies that no one would pay to see in the cinema

I'm very curious to see how Martin Scorcese's The Irishman turns out. Because he is by far the greatest filmmaker that has ever collaborated with Netflix thus far