Don't Think Twice
Crit
First, a warning: this probably isn't as funny as you think. Yes, it's about an improv troupe, and yes, there are moments of improv brilliance (and yes, you pray that those scenes were genuine improv, and if they were scripted, you don't want to know), but it's less about what happens on stage than it is about the 24/7 dynamics of the group, and specifically about the effort, mostly unsuccessful, to be happy for the one of them who is asked to join the cast of "Weekend Live," a completely fictitious long-running Manhattan-based comedy sketch show whose martinet producer, I'm confident, bears no resemblance whatever to Lorne Michaels.
So if you're OK wincing more than laughing, and if you go in with that expectation, you will admire, if not quite love, Mike Birbiglia's tough writing and directing follow-up to Sleepwalk with Me.
Trailers
- Office Christmas Party--Sucking seems likely, but the cast is great, and maybe it'll be a guilty pleasure.
- The Hollars--I'm more confident in this one, though it has the potential to slide into sentimentality.
- The Edge of Seventeen--Yes, we've seen this many times, but not often enough with a girl, and Hailee Steinfeld can carry it.
- Bad Santa 2--What do you need to know?
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