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May 13, 2022 · “On the Count of Three” is a rousing tragicomedy that straddles a line between incredibly calibrated gallows humor and a devastating discourse on the burden of existence.
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85% Tomatometer 117 Reviews 80% Audience Score 100+ Ratings From Annapurna Pictures (Spring Breakers, Sorry to Bother You, Booksmart) and Orion Pictures, Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial...
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May 12, 2022 · Two unhappy young men, best friends since childhood, decide to end their lives. This is the blunt, uncomfortable premise of “On the Count of Three,” which opens with the two main characters ...
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By Siddhant Adlakha
Posted: May 11, 2022 1:00 pm
On the Count of Three will be released on digital VOD and in select theaters on May 13, 2022.
The film deals heavily with suicide, and the below review discusses its treatment of it in broad strokes. If you are having suicidal thoughts, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline in the U.S. is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-273-8255. A list of international suicide hotlines can be found here.
A dark comedy that’s as bleak (and as bleakly funny) as they come, On The Count of Three follows two depressed best friends, Kevin (Christopher Abbott) and Val (Jerrod Carmichael), on the day they decide to kill themselves. The Sundance 2021 breakout marks Carmichael’s debut as a feature filmmaker, and sees him walking a tonal high-wire as he taps deep into millennial burnout — both as a director and as a performer — resulting in a grim, hilarious minor miracle of a movie that could so easily have gone wrong.
After teasing a scene where the two pals point handguns at each other, the film flashes back to earlier in the day, tracing how their double-murder-suicide pact came to be. Kevin, after an attempt at taking his own life earlier in the week, sits helpless in an institution that can’t seem to offer him a way to cope. Meanwhile, Val languishes in his dead-end job at a mulch factory, shuffling dead-eyed between conversations with senior managers who have far more enthusiasm about topsoil than he could ever hope to muster. Overcome by emotional numbness, he decides to spring Kevin and offers him the only mutual escape that seems on the cards for them — though not before they decide to spend their final day together, righting a few wrongs and living without consequence.
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A buddy comedy about a suicide pact, On The Count of Three follows Val (actor-director Jerrod Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott) on their final day alive, when the rules of tomorrow no longer apply to them. Thoughtfully conceived and brilliantly acted, it’s one of the most bleakly funny films to come out this year.
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Jan 30, 2021 · ‘On the Count of Three’ Review: Jerrod Carmichael’s Lively Buddy Comedy of Despair. Two bros join in a makeshift suicide pact in a comedy that taps an all-too-topical go-nowhere hopelessness. By...
May 11, 2022 · “On the Count of Three” opens as childhood friends Val (Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott) are preparing to shoot each other in the head, as the title suggests, on the count of...
Jan 30, 2021 · On the Count of Three review: Jerrod Carmichael delivers a raw, darkly comic debut. The comedian directs and costars with Christopher Abbott in a bleak buddy comedy to die for.
