Don't go anywhere. Don't leave your house, and if you do leave your house, don't leave your hometown. And if you do leave your hometown, don't go out to the middle of nowhere. And if you do go out to the middle of nowhere and someone asks you all to surrender your cell phones,

John Malkovich leans into his regular off-kilter creepy to play the unlikely pop star at the center of this serious misfire by the A24 studio, a movie that also manages to pull “The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri back to earth. How both could be totally miscast will haunt your dreams.

Casting is important. I feel like I’ve seen dozens of interviews with directors who humbly suggest that once you hire the right actors and let them do their thing, brilliance follows. It’s rare these days to see a truly rotten pairing of performer and role,