This fella right here, despite coming from a "similar" background as the usual denizen that lurks these golden digital lands i feel he has not really lived to the potential a creative discipline would've given him.
Because i've seen 6 of his movies, sometimes forced and sometimes a curiosity, sometimes with unknown plots or sometimes with extremely familiar settings or source material, i've grown to dislike his work for being pretentious and downright insulting to the source, either from him not having actual control of the work or not caring enough.
He went into the status quo via a dishonest propaganda hit piece, Polytechnique, then made a decent one called Incendies which used state funds in bad faith to promote a national canadian movie, the production is about arab twins wanting to kill an arab dude in an arab country (based on a real life story of an israel-backed general being hit by a girl but they changed his background from muslim commander to christian terrorist), then he made Enemy which is, in my opinion, a poor adaptation from a magical realist work which is tricky to do and results might end up in the realms of the weird, the unexplained and the pretentious, all three falling into this work of only 70 minute IIRC.
Then Sicario, a movie that bends and misinterprets all the well known facts about cartel activity in the US border which the production ignored in pro to make a consumer-grade action movie, then the alien flick Arrival which is unnecessarily convoluted to add some edge and jumps into many plot conveniences to have the US and a rando girl be the center of attention.
Blade Runner 2049 was the last straw, being a production nightmare that did every move wrong, i shamefully paid to see it despite all evidence pointing i was a retard to believe in it.
This is a director that seems to always ignore the setting context's notes to see how to portray it at least semi-realistically like weather, accents, etc (or production doesn't let him add them) this is also a director who cannot direct his actor's performances at all as they vary greatly in tone and quality throughout a production with the constant being deadpan "realistic" expressionless-tism that contemporary north american works tend to lean towards, which also makes his casting decisions poor (or production doesn't let him grab his choices). This ends up, for example, with close-up shots of a face almost useless due to lack of discernible emotions and only an exercise in aesthetics.
And regarding that, this is a director who is almost completely all style and no substance which isn't that bad of a thing yet his style itself is monotonous after a while in his works, it depends on a restricted colour palette that shifts in variants close to it (rarely contrasting to it) that are also applied in contexts and scenarios where it doesn't make sense and no narrative explanation is given to them, a yellow-palette movie will have a yellow interior of an office building lobby decorated in cold masonry for some reason, giving a movie (namely Enemy) an eternal cloudy sunset look even at night or inside rooms with no windows. We cannot really blame the production here as he supervises cameras due to being a cameraman himself and overlooking, by his own admission, the editing process; so you have here a director who cannot find a consistent look into his work without overriding normal sceneries and without being explicit with his tonal editing.
And i don't want to jump into the scripts because that's where production can actually meddle their greasy saurian claws into it, but in his own written work one can see dishonesty and short but self-masturbatory digressions.
Here i present you with a director who either peddled favors as an intelligent crew member in return of being an industry's whore or someone good enough who hasn't realized where he is and never further prepared himself to perform his duties well and just keeps winding it while adding tons of digital corrective makeup into his sterile products. Seeing his apologetic behavior towards his work spaces and executive decisions, and seeing that he ignored widely established popular wishes in legacy series to the point of doing so even when one of his appointed associates left a vacant after being poisoned in a party, makes me believe he is the former description of a "man" or, dare i say it, a leaf, called Denis Villeneuve.