After honing his sour, smarter-than-thou persona on HBO's Girls, Alex Karpovsky translates the mix of repression, condescension, and bluntness he's now associated with to a Midwestern male context.
Karpovsky doesn't get to show much range in writer-director Stephen Gurewitz's timid, overly sparse father-sons road trip movie, Marvin Seth and Stanley. But as firstborn Seth, he's certainly playing the film's only halfway-developed character. Irritable Seth and his needy younger brother, Stanley (Stephen Gurewitz), return home to suburban Minnesota to spend time with their elderly father, Marvin (first-time actor Marvin Gurewitz). After Seth foils a would-be surprise trip to Red Lobster — "it's a crappy corporate chain!" he petulantly protests in the car —...
Karpovsky doesn't get to show much range in writer-director Stephen Gurewitz's timid, overly sparse father-sons road trip movie, Marvin Seth and Stanley. But as firstborn Seth, he's certainly playing the film's only halfway-developed character. Irritable Seth and his needy younger brother, Stanley (Stephen Gurewitz), return home to suburban Minnesota to spend time with their elderly father, Marvin (first-time actor Marvin Gurewitz). After Seth foils a would-be surprise trip to Red Lobster — "it's a crappy corporate chain!" he petulantly protests in the car —...
- 4/23/2014
- Village Voice
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