Rapper Flying Lotus (aka Steve Ellison) goes for the gross-out hall of fame in his directing debut, 'Kuso.'

The audience-testing art-film “Kuso” is the the first feature from avant-garde hip-hop musician Steve Ellison, a.k.a.

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A visual orgy of pus and perversion that you probably couldn’t sit through even if you wanted to.

Kuso may often feel unproductively loud, and monotonous, but it is a head-scratcher worth contending with.

Sick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like be...

My gross-out movie credentials are important for contextualizing my reaction to "Kuso," which can be summed up as "nauseated."

Grotesquely explicit descriptions ahead

Intestinal fortitude is required to watch this scatological fantasia from "Steve," aka musician Flying Lotus.