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The performances are anything but natural, and they feel overwhelmed by the weight of the text that needs to be imparted.

This is another detriment spawned from Krasinski's direction. They are displaying effort, but no one in the cast is giving their best work. Just about every scene features a recognizable face. The cast of Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is filled to the brim with engaging and steady screen presences, made up of Julianne Nicholson, Corey Stoll, Josh Charles, Clarke Peters, Bobby Cannavale, Max Minghella, Will Arnett, Will Forte, Rashida Jones, and more. While viewers may struggle to follow along with the film's wavelength, they should at least be interested in the faces that routinely pop up onscreen. 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men' Has a Star-Studded Cast

Selecting Brief Interviews as the first true adaptation of Wallace seems like an accessible transfer, as the book tackles ideas surrounding relationships and modern masculinity, but the framework of it is still too idiosyncratic, thus lending Krasinski's film to lacking cohesiveness. Any criticisms of the film can be mitigated by the fact that possibly no one will ever succeed in adapting his work. Just at face value, Wallace's books, all filled with sharp metafiction and sprawling narratives, are not compatible with cinematic sensibilities. His prose and thematic ideas are so particular and unique that anyone else attempting to mimic his text will fail. Krasinski's film, which was adapted from Wallace's collection of short stories of the same name, indicates why his work was never adapted for the screen before or since its release. No matter how ambitious the project is, adapting the work of the late David Foster Wallac eis an immensely ambitious task. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Difficulties of Adapting David Foster Wallace