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Sep 14, 2018 · “A Simple Favor” is a pretty delicate balancing act. It’s a thriller told with a broad sense of humor (even slapstick at times). One false move could have been deadly, resulting in a film self-serious, or straining to be “relevant,” or—worse—just plain old boring.
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Sep 14, 2018 · The movie, with a script by Jessica Sharzer, based on a novel by Darcey Bell, and directed by Paul Feig, sets up the characters of Emily and Stephanie with a fragmentary, exaggerated backstory ...
Sep 13, 2018 · By Manohla Dargis. Sept. 13, 2018. Sly and sweet with an acid finish, “A Simple Favor” is a female-friendship comedy with neo-noir ambitions. Anna Kendrick stars as Stephanie, a widow raising...
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Sep 9, 2018 · Film Review: ‘A Simple Favor’. Paul Feig's clever, naughty suburban noir turns mommy blogger Anna Kendrick into a one-woman private eye hunting her missing friend. With a jangle of French...
Sep 9, 2018 · Based on the Darcey Bell novel of the same name, A Simple Favor is a sinuous thriller with as many twists and turns as a mountain road. The sleek film adaptation is part Gone Girl, part...
Sep 13, 2018 · “A Simple Favor” twists and turns like a flag whipping in the wind, and by the end it teeters on the brink of incomprehensibility while plunging into full ridiculousness.
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A Simple Favor is a 2018 American black crime comedy film directed by Paul Feig. Its screenplay by Jessica Sharzer is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell.
