“Although the movie offers a glimpse of what may seem the gray rim of living hell, the life of an intellectual compelled to make a living at a job that doesn’t engage his mind, ‘Paterson’ and Paterson have no spirit of revolt, no overt expressions of frustration, no defiance of mores or resistance to conventions. His noble and saintly patience embodies the movie’s gentle vision of art as an innocent practice of harmlessly humble souls — as a sort of secular monasticism that comes with its own whiff of pious rectitude.”