Josh:
It’s hard to understand why Miles remains friends with Jack, I guess, but I’ve known plenty of friendships like that where the self-obsessed manipulative dude and the conflict-avoidant, refined one (Miles holding his finger to his ear while he sniffs and describes the wine is perfectly hilarious) stay friends for decades, but anyway, this movie is so funny and poignant and so in love with Miles and Maya that I stopped caring about what happens to Jack, which I think is part of the point, and also that it’s possible to be a great writer and never get the recognition you deserve, and if you don’t believe that, just look at how few likes this review has! ⏰⏰⏰⏰
Steph:
I really love the buddy comedy aspect of this because the two lead actors have such amazing chemistry, and I found the dialogue funny and the deliveries even funnier, but I kind of hated how both men were so quickly and easily let off the hook for their bullshit—except for the Sandra Oh ass beating—which made the film feel a bit unbalanced and phony in the end. ⏰⏰⏰
The Bare Minimum 