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Sep 12, 2014 · Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson "The Drop" does have a sly ending in mind and at play, a great scene really, but it doesn't match or make up for the tedious lead-up.
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Sep 12, 2014 · A crime thriller based on a Dennis Lehane story, starring Tom Hardy as a Brooklyn bartender caught in a web of gangsters, dogs and secrets. The review praises Hardy's performance and the film's tension, but criticizes some of the supporting roles and the detective subplot.
Jan 13, 2023 · A comedy about a woman who drops a baby at a wedding in Mexico, but the film fails to deliver on its cringe potential. The characters are shallow and uninteresting, and the plot is shaggy and aimless.
Nov 13, 2014 · Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini star in a gripping but sometimes irrational crime thriller based on Dennis Lehane's novel. The Drop follows the fate of two cousins who run a bar that serves as a ...
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Updated: Jan 13, 2023 10:20 pm
Posted: Jan 13, 2023 10:14 pm
The Drop premieres exclusively Jan. 13 on Hulu.
The Drop starts off with a bang, literally. It gives us the entertaining basics about young married couple Lex (Anna Konkle) and Mani (Jermaine Fowler), transplants in Los Angeles who are enthusiastically trying to make a baby. But a destination wedding to Mexico with Lex’s old college friends ends up testing their whole relationship once an accident turns their stay into a trip from hell. The smart and witty premise that launches the main conflict ends up getting buried by an ensemble of absurdist friends who don’t really bolster the main story, as much as steal focus from it making for a fractured and uneven exploration of love and potential parenthood.
Opening in Los Angeles, Lex and Mani own an ironically named bakery, Carbs, and are actively charting her cycle to get pregnant. Mani misses his family in Brooklyn but he is supportive of his wife’s dreams, as she is about his excitement about being a dad. But that’s also challenged when they land in Mexico and as Lex holds her friend’s baby girl, promptly drops her. Reader, I gasped and it’s a brilliant inciting incident to make Lex, Mani, and everyone else in the wedding party question everything and judge, judge, judge.
In fact, the opening 20 minutes, as directed and co-written by Sarah Adina Smith, is the strongest portion of the film. There’s a great introduction of the happy couple so you’re rooting for them, the wedding guests crammed together in first class are full of bizarre quirks that will undoubtedly get under the skin of Lex and Mani, and then that drop moment hits like a hammer, landing as both horrific and blackly comedic. Unfortunately, everything that comes after doesn’t achieve that level of greatness going forward.
The child who takes the hit is the baby of the two women getting married, Peggy (Jennifer Lafleur) and the very intense and clingy Mia (Aparna Nancherla), who have the potential to be interesting sounding boards and examples of diametrically opposed parenting styles for Mani and Lex to observe, but they don’t get to function that way in the script. Peggy is relegated to being the sane one while Mia does weird things like ask her former lover, Lex, to write their vows for the wedding ceremony. Like who would do that?
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The Drop has a great premise that doesn’t get fleshed out in a way that honors such an audacious idea. While Konkle and Fowler are very strong as the central relationship being tested, the script treats them more as easy punchlines trying to navigate a series of escalating, cringe-worthy friend faux paus. While there’s a good amount to laugh at bec...
Jan 10, 2023 · ‘The Drop’ Review: A Destination Wedding Mishap Upends a Young Couple’s Parenting Plans With likable turns from leads Anna Konkle and Jermaine Fowler, this semi-dark comedy about motherhood ...
Jan 13, 2023 · The Drop review: when the baby hits the ground, the s**t hits the fan In Hulu's Duplass brothers-produced comedy, the dropping of an infant is a high-concept excuse to mock insufferable people. By.
