This Is Just to Say: Paterson‘s Not Great

PatersonDirected by Jim JarmuschOpens December 28
Jim Jarmusch’s latest—and second of the year, following his Stooges doc Gimme Danger—finds the director’s distinctive silver-white shock in danger of becoming age-appropriate: seldom have the end credits rolled on one of his pictures with so little of its mystery left intact. To recap: the title Paterson is also the film’s setting, the city in New Jersey; the name of its principal character, a poet/bus-driver played