“Cringe Comedy ‘All My Friends Hate Me’s Caustic Nastiness Hypnotizes”

Every millennial reading this right now is feeling very attacked, I guarantee it. Continue reading →

Review: Greener Grass, 2019, dir. Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe

And you thought my obsession with “Lemon” was a sign of twisted character! Continue reading →

“Mister America Is A Mockumentary That Feels Unsettlingly Real”

Not the Noah Baumbach movie starring Lola Kirke and Greta Gerwig, but rather the grimy, unpleasant, ultimately hilarious big-screen version of a Tim Heidecker and Greg Turkington bit. Continue reading →

Review: Lemon, 2017, dir. Janicza Bravo

Here it is, at long last (that is, if you think six months qualifies as “long”): My review of Janicza Bravo’s excellent debut feature film, Lemon, a chronicle of defective but self-aggrandizing whiteness, starring Bravo’s husband Brett Gelman (also serving here as co-writer; they’re a real team).  There are reasons and then some why I like … Continue reading →

Review: Klown Forever, 2016, dir. Mikkel Nørgaard

Remember five years ago when I reviewed that movie Klown? I’m at it again, reviewing its sequel, Klown Forever, over at The Playlist, much like its stars, Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, are at it again playing awful, petty, self-destructive alternate versions of themselves. How nice to be reunited with them. Wait: No, not how “nice.” How … Continue reading →