Mister America
By Paul Weissman October 8, 2019
The humor here is so dry, it’s arid.
A dark screwball comedy set in backwoods Alabama.
The entire film hinges on Marc Maron, and he makes it worth seeing.
Taylor Schilling plays a career-obsessed woman with no personal life challenged with watching her awkward niece.
Director and writer Madeleine Olnek has a hoot sending up and tearing down Emily Dickinson’s priggish image.
Distinctly odd and way out of the mainstream. If you are on its wavelength, it’s cinematic gold. If not, you simply don’t know what the hell you’re watching.
Throw in some lesbianism, witchcraft, and supporting performances by Fred Armisen, Adam Pally, and Molly Shannon and you have one of the year’s funniest films.
A meta comedy about a singing comedian named Henry Phillips, played by comedian Henry Phillips, who in real life sings as part of his act.
Nick Kroll stars as a mid-30s slacker who acts as his blind brother’s Seeing Eye dog and sports trainer, rolled up in one resentful package.