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The music isn’t merely a distraction from the daily horrors; it’s Gaga’s way of confidently opposing the artless philistinism levied by the right wing’s frightening agenda.

"If the candidates are unwilling to say anything new and provocative, the media will focus on their misstatements and artless dodges. ... Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing Harris can do."

That problem becomes acute in long, artless passages of editorializing — about, say, Ronald Reagan or the Catholic Church — that have all the considered insight of barbershop chatter.

The scene is outrageous, not because it’s for or against abortion rights, but because it’s so gauche and utterly artless.

This is a story where the characters woo each other with artless naïveté, and the movie is shot in a similarly unassuming fashion.