As Monica, the intrepidly impish O’Hara is an almost sacred monster.

Is he a sacred monster, or just a monster?

Speaking of feet, the subject is Rudolf Nureyev, a dancer to conjure with, a superstar/sacred monster who changed the very nature of ballet, the first major Soviet artist to defect to the West and a man who had, a biographer wrote, “an innate sense that borders were meant to be crossed.”

Starring an uncompromising Dustin Hoffman as a self-important sacred monster father and Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler as the adult sons still struggling with his influence, “Meyerowitz” is graced with Baumbach’s acute observations of human behavior.

I think he was a sacred monster.