It takes half a lifetime, in fact, during which we get to know Sharad like a friend, watching him struggle in an impossible industry and try to square ideas of authenticity and transcendence with being able to have things - like a life, a home, and an existence that isn’t defined by poverty and petty grievances the way his beloved guru’s can be. And a wide-eyed man watches Tiffany Haddish crawl out from under a prison bus in an orange jumpsuit, then informs her, “You better take off - you better run.” It’s not gotcha comedy, it’s comedy in which the whole world is a co-conspirator.Īrtistic purity is a prison in Chaitanya Tamhane’s wonderfully textured portrait of an aspiring Indian classical musician, but it takes Sharad Nerulkar (Aditya Modak) a long time to understand that. A nurse attempts to treat André when he spews explosive vomit all over a bar. A golfer tries, with surprising patience, to talk André and Howery through extricating their dicks from a Chinese finger trap. But the true delight comes from how the first impulse of so many of its unwitting cast members is to help when met with whatever scene of inspired chaos the film’s creators have dreamed up.
Not that Bad Trip is all that cringeworthy - there’s a sweetness to it that’s anchored by the friendship between Eric André’s lovelorn human cartoon and the long-suffering straight man played by Lil Rel Howery, a movie relationship planted in a real-world setting. Consider the following lists snapshots of moviegoing in the year in-person cinema truly returned, almost too late and with a vengeance:Įric André and Kitao Sakurai’s howlingly good hidden-camera movie temporarily cured me of the secondhand embarrassment that prevents me from enjoying cringe comedies. Red Rocket, Titane, The Last Duel, and Spencer - great films that have garnered recognition from one awards-bestowing body or another - could easily have made someone’s final cut. List-making is always capricious, but the decision to include a particular movie on this year’s Top 10s felt subsequently more personally haphazard. This is true any year, but it was especially true at the end of 2021, which Vulture’s Alison Willmore describes simply as “ overwhelming.” Not just because the sheer amount of movies released seemed dramatic after months hibernating at home but also because so many of those movies arrived late - held back by pandemic forces, of course - and stuffed into the fall season. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of the StudiosĪsk a film critic to list their Top 10 best movies of the year, and they will give you a Top 20 list with runners-up and several annotations.
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