Actors: Lake Bell, Demetri Martin
Director: Lake Bell
There's a style of writing that I don't want to call 'sitcom writing' but I'm going to - it's the kind of writing where the person thinks that the script needs a laugh in a particular place. 'This needs a laugh'. And so you get people saying mildly funny things in exposition or everyone in the movie is just constantly quipping. It's what modern audiences are accustomed to. It unfortunately sounds awful to me if it's not done really well, and there's parts in here that are, and parts in here that aren't. Either way, I think this is a debut film, and it's a hell of a debut if so - plot contrivances and the sitcom style of writing aside, this movie reminded me of Woody Allen, but in a good way - it's an examination of a very small, very competitive place. I'm excited to see what's next.
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