I am a fan, and my judgement is better than the leftists that populate the Hollywood world and it’s world of critics and scholars, and professors.
If you want to worship at the altar of the short lived actor and a kind of weird movie, feel free, but I consider the film one for beer and laughs.
It’s a masterpiece which is taught as one of the prime examples of cinematic expressionism. The director studied with Frank Lloyd Wright And it shows.