
Variety
This adventurous seriocomedy has enough surprising elements and off-kilter humor to keep one intrigued, even if the payoff is debatable.
Full reviewAubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West) leads this oddball drama as an actor-turned-director stuck in a creative glut. When she's joined by a couple at a rural retreat, her inner demons surface in unexpected ways. Co-stars Sarah Gadon (True Detective) and Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (It Comes at Night, TV's Girls).
Filmmaking, manipulation, infidelity and trippiness collide in this mind-bending drama led by a superb Aubrey Plaza (playing against snarky comic type).
This adventurous seriocomedy has enough surprising elements and off-kilter humor to keep one intrigued, even if the payoff is debatable.
Full reviewA slippery psychological drama that starts out talky and perhaps intentionally distancing but becomes retroactively gripping once its big switch is revealed, this is a darkly playful deconstruction of the indie filmmaking process that digs into the artist-muse dynamic and the power structures in relationships, constantly teasing the viewer as to what's real and what's part of the writer character's imagination.
Full reviewThroughout clever turns and twists of the plot, Levine presents a meditation and deconstruction on life imitating art and vice versa with a dash of Robert Altman and a nod to David Mamet as players fill in the story.
Full reviewIt’s often scathingly funny—a dark comic millennial spin on the Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? template, buoyed by three expertly modulated performances and acidic bon mots.
Full reviewAs Levine unravels clever jabs and jibes at current culture — few recent features have so smartly picked apart both feminism and caveman culture with such insight and humor — tenuous bonds break down.
Full reviewIt’s brainy, sure, but the emotional experience is what’s most vivid. The plot beats may confound you, but the feelings behind them are crystal-clear.
Full reviewBlack Bear is available to stream in New Zealand now on Netflix and Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals.
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