'Company' Review: Casey Affleck's Nesting-Doll Narrative Is a Frustrating Slog

Moving with all the urgency of molasses in winter, Casey Affleck's "Company" starts out intriguing enough. In the middle of a downpour, a mysterious young woman arrives at a suburban house where a Christmas party is in full swing; she's uninvited, but received warmly anyway, claiming that she was looking for a previous resident. By the glow of the fire with a cup of tea in hand, she introduces herself to the other partygoers as Evelyn, and begins to spin a yarn that she explains was told to her recently by a dying relative. From here a tiresome story-within-a-story-within-a-story . . .