odd bird

An odd bird it is, dwelling in a dusty room that lacks a window or a view.

Eagle, 39, has always been an odd bird in the hip-hop cinematic universe — willing to mix his personal insecurities and philosophical inclinations into songs alongside references to Steven Wright, ThunderCats and the Koch Brothers — but the new album is a poignant, heart-rending confessional of another order altogether.

“It’s an odd bird in the sense of it’s not an obvious thing,” he said.

It was simple and raw, played with the utmost unsentimentality by a completely committed Driver, and it had me leaving the theater thinking of all this odd bird of an actor has given us this year: his self-absorbed but sympathetic schlemiel in Marriage Story, his nose-to-the-grindstone wonk in The Report, and whatever Kylo Ren is—an action figure in emotional warp drive.

Robbie’s fictional Kayla, a self-proclaimed “evangelical millennial,” is not an easily classifiable political type but a believably odd bird.