Cute, consistently amusing, generous and big-hearted in a not annoying way.
Molly Gordon, Ayo Edebiri, Patti Harrison, Owen Thiele* are all so funny, Jimmy Tatro also very funny though sometimes I wish he were like 15% more restrained w stuff bc I think he has the chops to pull it off, Noah Galvin very talented, Ben Platt also I think objectively good in this but hard to feel generous towards him?? Amy Sedaris obviously a legend but she is only…
Too long with repetitive beats that miss opportunities for tightening various vices, but some good directorial execution and Joan Crawford very good and Bette Davis giving a fireball performance that is often put in the pantheon of movie monsters and I don’t disagree! Kind of fun but also one big bummer in some ways that I think are intentional? Piano guy looks like Zach Woods in a fat suit
I hated this movie so much that I tried to write something about it and got so mad that it ended up being like "AND ANOTHER THING" for 2400 words so I've abandoned ship for the time being but if you're thinking of watching this movie and you care at all what your good old friend Sascha thinks, don't!!
This operates in the shittiest of registers: The movie that thinks the audience is stupid but is stupider than the audience.…
