Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson headline this ‘Groundhog Day’-on-acid rom-com from camera operator-turned-director Alex Lehmann. Essentially just a vehicle for Cuoco to strut her acting chops (which are, surprisingly, considerable, given her decade-plus on the awful ‘The Big Bang Theory’), it’s a quirky and only occasionally maddening Indie darling. It […]
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Patton Oswalt: We All Scream
Much of this stand-up special (the comedian’s eighth) reflects primarily on his stir-crazy hours spent during the pandemic. You would think all that time would have allowed him to write some better material than whatever this is. Sure, some things work—the idea for the saddest Pixar movie, particularly—but when a […]
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See How They Run
It looks like a mash-up of Wes Anderson and the Coen Brothers and plays like a British drawing room farce, and when you add it all together, you get a delightful drole whodunnit about the murder of a Hollywood director (Adrien Brody) in line to direct the film version of […]
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Confess, Fletch
Jon Hamm tries his best to assume the mantle that Chevy Chase first wore in 1985’s cult hit, but a meandering and needlessly convoluted script about art theft and murder is only part of the issue. The bigger problem is that Hamm—as talented and respected as he is—doesn’t have (or […]
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Do Revenge
Destined to be the current generation’s ‘Clueless’, ‘Mean Girls’, and ‘Heathers’ all rolled into one, this ultra-black comedy from writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (who also wrote 2020’s underrated ‘Unpregnant’) is a twisty and clever ride. Starring Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke (who both kill it) as teens on a vengeful […]
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I Used to Be Famous
A touching and surprisingly worth-it bit of goodness, this British film about a washed-up former boy-band star who tries to get back in the limelight with the help of a young autistic drummer could have been a treacly mess, but it’s content to just mosey along and give us a […]
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About Fate
Hot on the heels of 2020’s better-than-expected ‘Holidate’, star Emma Roberts and screenwriter Tiffany Paulsen reunite for this similarly-themed flick about a young woman who recruits a stranger to be her plus-one at her sister’s wedding. With a plot as entirely unoriginal as that, it falls on the script and […]
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Pinocchio
For a company built on the spirit of imagination and creativity, Disney sure has had its share of unoriginal clunkers recently, particularly in the live-action department. Hot on the heels of last summer’s awful ‘Cruella’, we now get Robert Zemeckis’ update of ‘Pinocchio’. I’m not sure anyone asked for it, […]
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Out of Office
If you’re wondering why this tiring and flat effort seems like a failed NBC pilot to pair with ‘The Office’, it may be because it’s written and directed by Toby himself, Paul Lieberstein. Milana Vayntrub, Ken Jeong, and Jay Pharoah are along for the ride in this workplace comedy set […]
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McEnroe
What could have been a very straightforward (and yawn-worthy) doc about tennis’ Superbrat is instead a probing and raw examination, and Mac himself is holding the scalpel. Set alongside a through-the-night stroll in New York City, the film takes us inside the mind of arguably the best to ever play […]
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