There's this thing musicians do, a sudden moment of realization where they stop playing their instrument and say, "Oh wait, I'm playing this in the wrong key. " It was around halfway through Lamb, when Ada is prancing around in her little blue sweater, when I realized that this entire movie was shot in the wrong style. This is a children's folktale for adults; the idea had irony in it, the execution did not. I spent the second half fixing…
