No one does "mild-mannered guy who seems friendly but does this thing that suggests he'd like to slice off your tongue and use it as a coaster" better than Mark Rylance.
The theater veteran, an Oscar winner as a shy psycho in "Bridge of Spies," is more brutal in "Bones and All," which pretty much has to be described as a cannibal romance. Rylance affably greets the movie's protagonist, Maren (Taylor Russell), but then starts slurping on his teeth and giggling nervously, and it's only a matter of time before he's serving her a human meal.
Make no bones about it, "Bones and All" is a bold, risk-taking movie. Cannibalism is a metaphor for something or other — Addiction? Feeling like an outsider? Going all-in for love? — but it's also very much a literal thing, as represented by Rylance, Russell and Timothée Chalamet. The "Call Me by Your Name" Oscar nominee plays a guy Maren meets on her travels who's a real sweetheart if you can overlook the fact that he, too, has a taste for human tartare.
