You already know this, but for the second consecutive year the Sundance Film Festival was forced entirely online, thanks to the pandemic’s most recent,
Monday Review: Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough in an Indie Drama of Love and Other Drugs
A sexy romantic comedy turns into a drama of bad behavior that s more showy than convincing.
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Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos
With: Sebastian Stan, Denise Gough, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Dominique Tipper, Andreas Konstantinou, Elli Tringou, Sofia Kokkali, Sylla Tzoumerkas, Vangelis Mourikis, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Heronymos Kaletsanos.
Some movies can bring out the life coach in you, the one who wants to get the characters to straighten up and fly right. Is that just because they’re behaving badly? Not exactly. Bad behavior is half of what movies are. No, when a film nudges your inner life coach, it’s because someone onscreen is up to something so wrongheaded that it ceases to be clear whether it’s him or the movie that needs an intervention.
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Finn Wittrock and Zoë Chao star in Steve Basilone s offbeat romantic comedy infused with sci-fi elements.
Some movies benefit from good timing. Such is the case with Steve Bailone s feature debut about a whirlwind romance suffused with sci-fi underpinnings. In normal times, one might be tempted to poke holes at the plot contrivances and fantastical elements of
Long Weekend. But after a year of pandemic-related social isolation, the film instead provides a moving reminder of the simple joys of making a meaningful emotional and physical connection with another human being.
Finn Wittrock, often seen to more malevolent effect via his roles in such Ryan Murphy projects as
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