In Clean, Adrien Brody is a garbage man named Clean. After a tragedy in his past that haunts him to this day, Clean has gone clean. He’s trying to redeem his past mistakes by cleaning up the streets of Utica. Taking out the trash, literally and metaphorically. Dirty cops and rancid garbage, all must go. An ugly and hilariously on the nose watch, Clean is the kind of self-serious neo-noir that amplifies its navel-gazing faux-grittiness to a point of self-parody, complete with stuffy, gravelly voiceover, written as an obvious attempt to ape Alan Moore’s oft-copied steely nihilism, with streaky, smoky nighttime cinematography that adds nothing but another layer of comical try-hardiness to the overall picture. Read More