Biutiful

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s manipulatively misspelled melodrama follows Uxbal (Javier Bardem), who hustles to make meager ends meet by supplying immigrant workers for Chinese capitalists. As if stuffing mondo social issues and caricatures into this sausage skin until the seams burst were not enough, Iñárritu introduces a supernatural aspect to his pseudoprofundities. This is a straight-up travesty.