In a strange, parallel turn, and with a much heavier fat suit, Brendan Fraser is trolling critics with his lead role in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”—a no-frills adaptation of the 2012 play by Samuel D. Hunter. As a surprised Matt Walsh (who probably hasn’t seen or heard of “Bitter Wheat”) mentioned, critics are going after “The Whale” with unusually harsh vitriol.
