Messy mystery only makes half-sense

Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough in Under the Silver Lake

As is so often the way with young filmmakers who break out with their first widely seen effort, It Follows writer and director David Robert Mitchell takes a big swing with his follow-up; a ramshackle LA-set stoner detective story that plays out like a sci-fi Raymond Chandler or a hipster Hitchcock. Blurring the distinctions between genres with commendable impudence, Mitchell further muddies his already sodden pastiche with flashes of unsettling surrealism and unconventional ...