Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ and the sinister world of haunted art

Morf Vanderwalt, the acerbic art critic played by Jake Gyllenhaal in Netflix film "Velvet Buzzsaw," is never short of a bon mot. For him, becoming the recipient of even the most insouciant of hatchet jobs remains an honor. "A bad review," he argues, "is better than sinking into the great glut of anonymity."