Justin Chang
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1,638 appearances
51 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The boisterous good vibes that once powered many a Judd Apatow comedy have hardened into a shell of middle-aged discontent.
Pina and Hawk, played by Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton, eventually arrive.
Not long afterward, Hawk, who's nothing if not direct, tries to either diffuse or exacerbate the obvious tension in the room.
We were fighting.
Bit of a contentious environment in here, so I understand if that's repellent to you.
No hard feelings, you know what I mean?
Completely understand, you know?
We love a contentious environment.
As the couples get to know each other, we get to know them too.
And we come to understand the roots of Joe and Angela's unhappiness.
Joe was a once-promising indie rock artist whose career flamed out after one big hit.
He now teaches music at a Bay Area conservatory, and his sense of failure is eating him alive.
And Angela hasn't made much use of her art school degree, apart from renovating and redecorating the apartment, her sole creative outlet these days.
Pina and Hawk are a model couple by comparison, which makes them irritating and amusing in equal measure.
Hawke lays on the flattery and the New Age sensitivity awfully thick, and Norton, not for the first time, expertly blurs the lines between charm and smarm.
Pina is a psychotherapist and sexologist, and at first she might seem to veer toward a hot-blooded, Euro-seductress caricature.
But Cruise is too vivid to be reduced to a stereotype.
Pina is ultimately the one character the movie refuses to mock.
She's too comfortable in her own skin, and too ruthlessly accurate in her assessments of Joe and Angela's troubled marriage.
Wilde previously directed the enjoyable teen comedy Booksmart, and less successfully, the domestic dystopian satire Don't Worry Darling, an ambitious movie that ultimately proved less interesting than its much-publicized behind-the-scenes shenanigans.
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