choppily

With so much chronological haphazardness, the handsomely produced if choppily edited “Freud’s Last Session” becomes trapped in a no-patient’s-land, neither effectively enlarged nor satisfyingly intimate.

Markets reacted choppily to a much-watched speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell overnight, although most investors leaned further into bets that the Fed will extend its rate pause in November.

The result is a film that’s engaging enough, but choppily paced and oddly inert.

However, the euro was comparatively unaffected, and was last at $1.1331, marginally higher in early Asia, having traded choppily this week, but without finding a clear direction.

The fight scenes, full of swordplay and gunfire, are choppily edited and somehow lackadaisical.