Kajillionaire is Miranda July's reinvention of the American grifter film and Evan Rachel Wood is her Paul Newman. Wood, a generational talent, has only made a few movies since 2014. (Her time has mostly been spent on dystopian Westworld soundstages as a lethal android). But she's different every time you see her. Kajillionaire is a movie unlike any other, with characters unlike any others, and, in a cast like that, Wood is the standout. It's not even close.It's an exercise in futility to summarize or lend words to July's films because they're meant to be experienced, not read about. That said, Kajillionaire is her most accessible work to date. July is that rare thing — an original artist. A fan of the existential and idyosyncratic, the multi-dimensional artist gives us a film every few years and they never disappoint. The writer/director forces us to examine the familiar from new perspectives. She's working in a higher league
