Murderous escaped cons are no match for the wrath of a 13-year-old girl in this over-the-top yet effectively taut thriller.
14.05.2020 - 02:59 / variety.com
Lauren Lapkus, cast as David Spade's date from hell, provides the anarchic spark plug for an otherwise functional slob-vs.-the-corporate-snobs rom-com.
By Owen Gleiberman
Chief Film Critic
“The Wrong Missy” is a rom-com, but it’s really a ’90s Jim Carrey movie merged with one of those slob-goes-on-a-corporate-retreat comedies that has starred everyone from Bill Murray to Adam Sandler to Will Ferrell. Here’s what’s new about it: The hypomanic Jim Carrey figure is a woman — Missy, played by
Murderous escaped cons are no match for the wrath of a 13-year-old girl in this over-the-top yet effectively taut thriller.
This time it’s personal as Lynn Chen puts Asian actresses front and center in her winning conclusion to the 'Surrogate Valentine' trilogy.
It's too little too late in this tedious biopic of Anglo-Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray and her antagonist Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
A young New York homeless woman is the focus of Andrew Wonder's confident, intriguing narrative debut feature.
A portrait of a struggling New Yorker who bites every hand that tries to feed her, Andrew Wonder's Feral follows a homeless woman (Annapurna Sriram) who splits her time between the streets and the filthy nest she has made for herself deep within the city's subway tunnels.
You’ve seen Kevin James play a Queens delivery man, a mall cop, a retired cop, a biology teacher turned MMA fighter, a zookeeper (in Zookeeper), the president of the United States, an animated Frankenstein, and a straight firefighter pretending that he’s gay. But it’s fairly certain that you’ve never quite seen him as he is in Becky, a stylish and very gory home-invasion thriller from the directing duo of Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott.
Is there a more distressing vision to torment your COVID lockdown dreams than a blocked toilet? Well, yes, if the blockage is caused by the bloody, half-dead body of a hairless, razor-toothed bat with what looks unsettlingly like an umbilical cord attached.
On their way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, four kids charm while demystifying the reign of South Asian contenders.
Inventive and infectious, TT The Artist's head-turning debut fuses the forms of documentary and music video to honor Baltimore's vibrant social fabric.
Dehumanizing power dynamics underscore Prateek Vats’ enjoyable debut about a guy ill-suited to his new job as monkey chaser in Delhi.
Liz Marshall's smooth, accessible documentary may change some minds as it unpacks the specifics of the slaughter-free "clean meat" movement.
Milkwatertakes its title from "The Consecrating Mother" by Anne Sexton, the Pulitzer-winning mid-20th century American poet who wrote with stark confessional candor about the intimate physical and emotional experience of womanhood. That makes it natural to expect a singular focus in Morgan Ingari's likable first feature about a directionless young woman who impulsively decides to become a surrogate for an older gay man she barely knows.
The helmer of HBO's 'Los Espookys' delivers a serious, sensitive look at Monterrey's Cholombiano subculture through the eyes of an endangered cumbia dancer.
In a genre heavy on outright gastroporn, Abby Ainsworth's polished documentary on Spain's celebrated Mugaritz restaurant inspires more curiosity than hunger.
The phrase “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” which has often (and perhaps erroneously) been attributed to American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a familiar saying by about 1920. And it makes perfect sense that the phrase roughly coincides with the dawn of cinema, because filmmakers have been cinematically paraphrasing it for much of the last 100 years.
Adam Sandler’s 2019 crime drama film Uncut Gems turned out to be a box office hit. The actor’s remarkable performance in the film was praised by audience and critics alike, and even generated Oscar buzz. The fans even slammed the award ceremony for not adding the movie to their nomination list. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, film's directors Josh and Benny Safdie revealed that the actor was once nearly choked to death by his co-stars on while shooting an action scene.
Adam Sandler is set to star in the Netflix filmHustle, with We the Animals director Jeremiah Zagar on board to helm and NBA superstar LeBron James set to produce. In the drama, Sandler will play an American basketball scout who is unjustly fired after discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player abroad.
Adam Sandler is headed back to Netflix with Hustle, Variety reports.