Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Movie Review

Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman’s fight to the end.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom has big themes but told in such a small and intimate way, and that paradox, for some (myself included) will feel lacking, not wholly satisfying, despite a very compelling movie with some very powerful performances. August Wilson’s stage play from 1982 is brought to life by Viola Davis as the trailblazing Ma Rainey and the late Chadwick Boseman in his tragically final and finest work.		2020 Directed by: George C. Wolfe Screenplay by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson Based on the play by August Wilson Starring: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman

Another Round: Movie Review

Universal themes of life, love and death.

My only previous Thomas Vinterberg experience is with The Hunt. A movie I like but oh so frustrating. Another Round, while also starring Mads Mikkelsen as a teacher, is a very different creature. Another examination of human experience and consequences and action, but more sweeping and all encompassing.		2020 Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg Screenplay by: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Magnus Millang

Let Them All Talk: Movie Review

Small themes, well crafted characters.

Steven Soderbergh and Meryl Streep collaborations seem like they should be bigger than they are. The Laundromat made very little impact last year and Let Them All Talk seems destined for a similar fate this year. It’s going to have a small impact because it’s a small story. A simple tale of an older woman, a successful author, who has invited her friends on a cruise.		2020 Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Screenplay by: Deborah Eisenberg Starring: Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and Lucas Hedges

Palm Springs: Movie Review

Inventive, clever and funny.

Palm Springs is clever and funny, and it’s a romantic comedy. The concept may be lifted from Groundhog Day but that doesn’t stop the filmmakers from applying it in a unique and inventive way, adding layers to a mainstream comedy. I love how the plot is explored, love the comedy, and how cohesively meshed the two are within the rom-com structure.		2020 Directed by: Max Barbakow Screenplay by: Andy Siara Starring: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, Meredith Hagner and J.K. Simmons

Guest House: Movie Review

Stripped of all originality and humanity.

The weird premise – a couple buys a house with a strange man permanently living in the guest house – is the least of Guest House’s problems. It’s just a poorly written, poorly executed comedy that seems to have been created by Netflix’s algorithm to hit all the points that comedies should have and is stripped of any originality or humanity. Turns out it's not a Netflix original, but I stand by that last sentence.		2020 Directed by: Sam Macaroni Screenplay by: Sam Macaroni, Sean Bishop, Troy Duffy Starring: Paul Shore, Mike Castle, and Aimee Teegarden

Sister of the Groom: Movie Review

Awful people at a wedding.

What sounds like a romantic comedy, or at least a wedding-based comedy, is actually a drama about awful people at a wedding. Audrey (Alicia Silverstone) is stressed. She’s turning 40 soon, her brother is about to be married, she has not yet met the bride-to-be, and her mother died a few years earlier.		2020 Directed by: Amy Miller Gross Screenplay by: Amy Miller Gross Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Mathilde Ollivier

Modern Persuasion: Movie Review

Mature adaptation, limited humour.

Modern Persuasion is literally a modern Persuasion. A 21st century adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. The main themes of a smart, independent, successful woman looking for a second chance at love is reasonably well-suited to today’s world. Austen’s novel, her last, was well received for being mature, and despite the hackneyed plot points or predictable love interests, there is an air of maturity in this version.		2020 Directed by: Alex Appel, Jonathan Lisecki Written by: Jonathan Lisecki, Barbara Radecki Based on the novel by Jane Austen Starring: Alicia Witt, Shane McRae

I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight: Movie Review

Funny, romantic and real; occasionally heartbreaking but still optimistic.

I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight is a stunning achievement for a low-budget Canadian rom-com. Freshman actors pull off this simple story of two strangers meeting and taking a chance on each other to turn this film into a sometimes delightful, sometimes heartbreaking examination of a young relationship.		2020 Directed by: Sean Garrity Screenplay by: Sean Garrity Starring: Hera Nalam, Kristian Jordan

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters: Movie Review

Balances the chaos with the right amount of maturity.

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters is a multi-story romantic comedy. Featuring a plethora of characters, some famous actors, it’s a story of people in love and falling in love. Six stories of romance can seem like a lot, but some are more prominent than others, and there is one big wedding which connects all the important characters.		2020 Directed by: Dennis Dugan Screenplay by: Dennis Dugan Starring: Maggie Grace, Diane Keaton, Jeremy Irons, Andrew Bachelor and Diego Boneta

1 Night in San Diego: Movie Review

Directionless comedy and no good jokes.

Starring Laura Ashley Samuels and Jenna Ushkowitz as Brooklyn and Hannah, 1 Night in San Diego is a girls’ buddy comedy, with some not funny attempts at comedy. Brooklyn and Hannah are two Hollywood divas. There's a vague background for Hannah, she’s semi/formerly famous from a New Jersey-set reality show and new to LA. Brooklyn thinks she’s an influencer, but no further introduction.		2020 Directed by: Penelope Lawson Screenplay by: Penelope Lawson Starring: Laura Ashley Samuels, Jenna Ushkowitz

The Giant: Movie Review

A lot of atmosphere, no story.

There feels like there must be a good movie in The Giant somewhere, but good luck finding it in between the blurry shots of street lights, close-ups of her hair and eyeball, and long tracking shots of… the moon. Yes, that’s right, the good cinematography was spent on an astronomical body which cannot emote emotion and plays no role in the movie.		2019 Directed by: David Raboy Screenplay by: David Raboy Starring: Odessa Young, Ben Schnetzer

Midnight at the Magnolia: Movie Review

A cute and charming bundle of holiday joy.

Romantic comedies most often suffer from predictability and Midnight at the Magnolia just may be the most predictable, but in all the right ways. Jack and Maggie form a very cute couple and the charm radiates through the entire story. Even though it feels like it could have been written by a computer, or a thousand monkeys on typewriters.		2020 Directed by: Max McGuire Screenplay by: Carley Smale Starring: Natalie Hall, Evan Williams

Dinner with Friends: Movie Review (AKA Friendsgiving)

Too many unfunny characters spoil the Thanksgiving dinner.

I would like to start with the utter confusion around its release. A Thanksgiving-themed dramedy that was released in the United States as Friendsgiving in October, more than a full month before US Thanksgiving. Then was released in Canada in November, a month after Canadian Thanksgiving and renamed to Dinner with Friends, so it missed out on all the earlier advertising and the actual holiday. That’s a sign that the distributors don’t have faith in the movie.		2020 Directed by: Nicol Paone Screenplay by: Nicol Paone Starring: Malin Ackerman, Kat Dennings

Worst. Christmas. Ever.: Movie Review

Convoluted story and lack of comedy.

Worst. Christmas. Ever. has such a tough hill to climb. It sets some pretty big goals for itself given all the chaos happening in the plot description, but falls very flat. Low production quality issues combined with poorly defined characters keeps the audience too far removed from the action that is supposed to be occurring but never really comes.		2020 Directed by: Johnny Chechitelli Screenplay by: Johnny Chechitelli Starring: Raychael Lane, Leonardo Mancini

A New York Christmas Wedding: Movie Review

A very different kind of Christmas movie.

A New York Christmas Wedding is a very different kind of Christmas movie. It has the look and feel of an indie film (which it is) and, most importantly, it’s inclusive. I am going to try very hard to not give anything away, but I just have to say holiday rom-coms are not just for the straights anymore.		2020 Directed by: Otoja Abit Screenplay by: Otoja Abit Starring: Nia Fairweather, Adriana DeMeo

Blue Ridge: Movie Review

Uninteresting, low quality murder mystery.

Blue Ridge is a murder-of-the-week, made-for-TV quality movie. A woman has been murdered, but we don’t know all that much about her and so the interest in solving the crime is severely lacking. Pretty much everybody in town is a suspect because apparently it’s a town full of bad guys, but none of their stories are interesting either.		2020 Directed by: Brent Christy Screenplay by: Caleb G. Brown, Shea Sizemore Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Sarah Lancaster, Graham Greene

Middleton Christmas: Movie Review

A lot of sweetness, romance, drama and cheesiness.

Middleton Christmas starts out as pure sweetness. Hershey chocolate wrapped in a glittery red bow. You know exactly what you’re getting when you unwrap it, but it’s sweet and comforting, and oh so bad for you, especially in large quantities, so hopefully we can keep these movies to a minimum this year (I say that knowing it’s the first week of November, I’ve already seen two, and avoided another dozen).		2020 Directed by: Dale Fabrigar Screenplay by: Tricia Aurand, Suzanne DeLaurentiis Starring: Kennedy Tucker, Michael Varde

Operation Christmas Drop: Movie Review

No romance but a feel-good finale.

Netflix’s newest addition to the Christmas romance genre starts out very shaky but eventually lands on its feet. Viewers who can get past the unfunny, unromantic, very typical opening with unlikable characters, will eventually be rewarded with a feel-good, inspirational flick. The set-up is awful, but the pay-off is solid especially for movies of this ilk.		2020 Directed by: Martin Wood Screenplay by: Gregg Rossen, Brian Sawyer Starring: Kat Graham, Alexander Ludwig

Wheels of Fortune: Movie Review

An over-the-top trashy comedy that does provide some laughs.

A trash comedy in the vein of Talladega Nights but somehow takes itself less seriously and still has a bit of heart to it. It starts in Tennessee. Bo Jackson is a mechanic for a tractor pull racer and this is because he’s a loser, as he likes to call himself. He has no money and no father, until a big city lawyer shows up with a fancy briefcase and a will from his unknown dead father promising Bo the chance to win money.		2020 Directed by: Shaun Paul Piccinino Screenplay by: John Ducey Starring: Matt Jones, John Ducey, Matty Cardarople, Noureen DeWulf

The Wolf of Snow Hollow: Movie Review

Idiosyncratic comedy with the makings of a thriller/horror and a character study.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow is a curious little movie. Part comedy, part horror, part thriller, part murder mystery, part character study, and all within a sub-90-minute runtime. The dialogue, primarily where the comedy comes in, is great; and the set-up for the murder mystery/thriller is good. The meshing of all the themes together got very muddled by the end and the conclusion is not wholly satisfying.		2020 Directed by: Jim Cummings Screenplay by: Jim Cummings Starring: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster

Holidate: Movie Review

A romantic comedy missing that crucial element of humour.

Emma Roberts has built herself a nice career. A long string of comedies – some hits, some nots, but peppers them with roles that have a real bite to them like Scream Queens and American Horror Story. Such that when she returns to a typical romantic comedy, it feels like home. There’s a comfort level to casting Roberts and Luke Bracey in a holiday-themed romantic comedy, and that’s why Holidate will get its audience.		2020 Directed by: John Whitesell Screenplay by: Tiffany Paulsen Starring: Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey

An Imperfect Murder: Movie Review

Lacking a narrative, purpose, intrigue and everything that comes with that.

Whatever this movie was supposed to be, or whatever it once was, it’s not that. Originally titled The Private Life of a Modern Woman and playing the Venice Film Festival in 2017, it gets released three years later and renamed An Imperfect Murder. Never a good sign. I have no idea what made somebody dust this film off the shelf, but it should have remained buried.		2017 Directed by: James Toback Screenplay by: James Toback Starring: Sienna Miller, Alec Baldwin

Shithouse: Movie Review

A true-to-life college experience with heart and vulnerability.

Cooper Raiff is a first-time filmmaker with Shithouse. It’s a small story, but one that is told with a lot of heart and a knack at hitting the awkward truths of college life. Alex (Cooper Raiff) is struggling. In general, struggling with everything about college. He’s not going to classes, failing when he does, he has a roommate who is actively awful to him and he has no friends. His only companionship is his mother and a stuffed animal.		2020 Directed by: Cooper Raiff Screenplay by: Cooper Raiff Starring: Cooper Raiff, Dylan Gelula, Logan Miller and Amy Landecker

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Movie Review

Make Borat great again.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan seemed like lightning in a bottle. Something that can’t be repeated and the humour wouldn’t translate to another year. Oh, how wrong that was. Sacha Baron Cohen and his fellow Borat writers and producers have made a true comedy sequel. One that picks up where the original left off and made it funnier and more relevant to today.		2020 Directed by: Jason Woliner Story by: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Nina Pedrad Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova

Don't Read This on a Plane: Movie Review

Slow moving and bizarrely plotted, but Jovana has her charms.

Don’t Read This on a Plane borrows its title from the book at the center of the film. And yes, it is named that for a reason. The protagonist is Jovana (Sophie Desmerais) this is her third novel, but her publisher has abruptly gone bankrupt and left her stranded on her book tour. This is very slow, and very bizarrely plotted, but builds to a strangely satisfying story.		2020 Directed by: Stuart McBratney Screenplay by: Stuart McBratney Starring: Sophie Desmerais

The Trial of the Chicago 7: Movie Review

A fascinating period of time, molded into an entertaining movie.

Aaron Sorkin has a way with words. I love his dialogue which always has this natural rhythm and tempo in line with the importance of what the characters have to say, that the audience just falls in sync. I was expecting it to be enlightening, but the suspense and tension is also notable and builds to a very captivating experience.		2020 Directed by: Aaron Sorkin Screenplay by: Aaron Sorkin Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Jeremy Strong

She's In Portland: Movie Review

Awful characters who don't have anything worthwhile to say.

She’s In Portland suggests there’s a mystique to this titular girl who gets an entire movie made around the journey to see her. But after all the girls we meet on the way to Portland, I really have to question how many girls do the filmmakers actually know? Do they think all girls are manic pixie dream girls? The use of that term will die down once filmmakers stop employing them.		2020 Directed by: Marc Carlini Screenplay by: Patrick Alexander, Marc Carlini Starring: Tommy Dewey, Francois Arnaud

Seberg: Movie Review

Tense, enlightening and heartbreaking.

Seberg is a sublime mix of biopic and FBI thriller. Set in the 1960s, Hollywood and European actress Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart) is on a flight back to LA from Paris and meets Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie), an outspoken civil rights activist, and Jean watching blatant racial discrimination right in front of her eyes, decides she can’t be silent anymore, and joins in a simple protest.		2019 Directed by: Benedict Andrews Screenplay by: Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse Starring: Kristen Stewart, Jack O'Connell

Misbehaviour: Movie Review

Gratifying entertainment in the hands of talented women.

There have been a lot of recent period pieces that seem just as timely and relevant today. Misbehaviour fits very nicely in that category. A story of activists centered around the 1970 Miss World competition tackling misogynism and racism. It’s led by a really fun group of actresses and hits all the right notes even if it’s not as big a film as others would like.		2020 Directed by: Philippa Lowthorpe Screenplay by: Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe Starring: Keira Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rhys Ifans

You've Got This: Movie Review

A nicely photographed dramedy with immature contrivances and one-dimensional characters.

You’ve Got This is a Mexican romantic dramedy. The production value is high, filled with some nicely photographed locales. The emotion in the romantic drama aspect is earned as the film gets deeper. However, apart from a few funny lines, the humour was mostly filled with immature contrivances, and despite some solid effort from the actors, the characters are mostly one-dimensional.		2020 Directed by: Salvador Espinosa Screenplay by: Tiare Scanda, Leonardo Zimbron Starring: Tato Alexander, Moises Arizmendi

The Boys in the Band: Movie Review

A period flashback to a film we need now.

Heavily advertised as a Ryan Murphy film, it’s not hard to mistake the producer’s influence on The Boys in the Band (notably in the opening sequence and the casting); however, it’s the film’s theater roots that become more prominent as the film went on. Unsurprisingly, it was originally a stage play, and is essentially a one-location, real-time movie.		2020 Directed by: Joe Mantello Screenplay by: Ned Martel, Mart Crowley Starring: Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto

The Personal History of David Copperfield: Movie Review

The joyful juncture between youth and maturity.

Similar to how director Armando Iannucci’s previous film The Death of Stalin is sort of based on real events, The Personal History of David Copperfield is sort of based on Dickens’ David Copperfield, which, in turn, is sort of based on real life. It’s a fantastical, upbeat, energetic take on Charles Dickens’ tale with Dev Patel's excellent turn as the titular mischievous orphan.		2019 Directed by: Armando Iannucci Screenplay: Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci Starring: Dev Patel

Swimming for Gold: Movie Review

Mediocre production, nothing to elevate the overcoming-the-odds inspirational story.

Swimming for Gold is squarely directed towards its teen/pre-teen audience, but even if I put myself in 12-year-old me’s shoes, I assume I would be disappointed by this. It’s a mediocre production that tries to squeeze in all the important beats of overcoming-the-odds inspirational story. None of the story lines are appropriately fleshed out to help connect the audience.		2020 Directed by: Hayley MacFarlane Screenplay by: Eric Bergemann Starring: Peyton List, Daniel Needs

Percy: Movie Review

An important story with a simplistic focus.

What feels like ripe material for an epic courtroom thriller, Percy instead takes the road less travelled. It focuses on the people. Which feels like a very apt focus considering the challenges that the agricultural community has faced with the growth of corporate farming and the decline of family farms. It’s a story of David vs Goliath when the septuagenarian Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser (Christopher Walken) took the giant corporation Monsanto to court.		2020 Directed by: Clark Johnson Screenplay by: Garfield Lindsay Miller, Hilary Pryor Starring: Christopher Walken, Zach Braff

I Care a Lot: Movie Review

Cynicism guides this dark comedy thriller.

I Care a Lot has a rhythmic opening scene. A man, desperate to be heard, causes a physical disturbance at a nursing home. He wants to see his mother, but he’s not allowed. Meet Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) who happens to be the legal guardian of this man’s mother. She’s a lawyer who the courts have put in charge of caring for older folks who can no longer take care of themselves.		2020 Directed by: J Blakeson Screenplay by: J Blakeson Starring: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage

I Met a Girl: Movie Review

An empathetic look at mental illness that is sweet and uplifting.

A story of hope, illness, resiliency, and love. I Met a Girl is an occasionally uncomfortable watch, but an uplifting one at the same time. Marketed as a romance, it’s not as light as you might expect it to be. Devon meets a girl and is in love, but he also suffers from schizophrenia with frequent bouts of delusion and paranoia.		2020 Directed by: Luke Eve Screenplay by: Glen Dolman Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Joel Jackson

The Broken Hearts Gallery: Movie Review

Genuinely funny and real empathy for the characters.

I’m having a curious relationship with The Broken Hearts Gallery. I have forgiven a lack of realism in romantic comedies in the past (because you just have to), but it’s particularly irksome here. The main premise is unrelatable and unlikable and yet I like everything else about the movie. The film has empathy for its characters, it's only fair that the audience does too.		2020 Directed by: Natalie Krinsky Screenplay by: Natalie Krinsky Starring: Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery

Shiva Baby: Movie Review

A unique and unnervingly real romantic dramedy.

Shiva Baby is a unique film. We’ve seen real-time films before but not in this Jewish slice-of-life (and death, we are at a Shiva after all) way. This is a comedy-drama-romance, but told so intimately and unnervingly real that it feels like it’s own genre. It is nothing like a romantic comedy, and yet on it’s surface, it’s a comedy about a young woman in a not-good relationship and what is she going to do with her life.		2020 Directed by: Emma Seligman Screenplay by: Emma Seligman Starring: Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon, Polly Draper, Danny Deferrari, Dianna Agron

Bill & Ted Face the Music: Movie Review

Eternal optimism and humour.

Bill & Ted pick up, not right where we left them, but right where we thought they’d be, 29 years later. They’re married to their princesses, they each have a daughter, and they’re still trying to make a go of the Wyld Stallyns, very unsuccessfully with Ted’s disapproving father and younger brother not missing a beat. This time, they’re expected to save the world with their music, with only an hour or so to do it in.		2020 Directed by: Dean Parisot Screenplay by: Ed Soloman and Chris Matheson Starring: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter

Emerson Heights: Movie Review

Hallmark-style romance, bad acting, awful message.

Emerson Heights is pure teen romance. It just screams Hallmark, but apparently it’s not. That was my first mistake, thinking if another distributor (Amazon) picked this up, surely there’s something else to this. It can’t just be a soapy, totally unrealistic tale of star-crossed lovers (at the ripe old age of 17) with really bad acting, can it? Yes, it can.		2020 Directed by: Jennifer Hook Screenplay by: Wendi Foy Green, Austin James Starring: Austin James, Gatlin Kate James

I Used to Go Here: Movie Review

Relatable, funny and entertaining.

I Used to Go Here is a funny and clever addition to the not-quite-a-mid-life-crisis, not-quite-a-quarter-life crisis genre. Kate (Gillian Jacobs) is in her mid-30s and the film quickly establishes that things are not going as well for her as she would like. She just got her first novel published – yay! But sales are poor, her book tour is cancelled, and there’s a man she once lived with who is not returning her calls.		2020 Directed by: Kris Rey Screenplay by: Kris Rey Starring: Gillian Jacobs, Josh Wiggins, Jermaine Clement and Hannah Marks

First Cow: Movie Review

A subtle tale of friendship and capitalism.

Eight features in and Kelly Reichardt remains a minimalist filmmaker. This time returning to the scene of Meek’s Cutoff and the Oregon territory in the mid-1800s. First Cow is as subtle a film as one could get with still a coherent narrative, and fortunes at stake for the protagonists. While it is a slow burn, eventually the story that forms is very engaging with legitimate suspense and hope for a better future.		2019 Directed by: Kelly Reichardt Screenplay by: Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond Starring: John Magaro and Orion Lee

Seriously Single: Movie Review

A legitimately crazy ex-fling.

The South African (English language) rom-com Seriously Single is basically 4 movies in one. If it was four different short films, a couple of them would be entertaining and really good. As one movie, it’s better than it had any right to be, but there are still pacing issues and character issues as Dineo (Fulu Mogovhani) goes through many highs and lows in her love life.		2020 Directed by: Katleho and Rethabile Ramaphakela Screenplay by: Lwazi Mvusi Starring: Fulu Mogovhani and Tumi Morake

aTypical Wednesday: Movie Review

A smart, funny and clever comedy.

Not quite a directorial debut, aTypical Wednesday is, however, the first feature-length fictional film written and directed by J. Lee. It’s a funny and clever comedy that both subverts expectations and gives audiences what they want. The themes are common comedy-drama fodder, namely: relationship issues, bullying and race relations. All three play into one another really well with a lot of laughs along the way.		2020 Directed by: J. Lee Screenplay by: J. Lee Starring: J. Lee, Cooper J. Friedman

The Kissing Booth 2: Movie Review

More kissing booth: more of everything.

I was all prepared to hate this. Two-and-a-quarter hour sequels to mediocre teen rom coms don’t exist for good reasons. But it wasn’t all bad. The Kissing Booth 2 took a number of the same qualities to the first, added a few new characters (kept all the same important ones), and then attempted to improve on the common criticisms. Too much was squeezed into this one and the result is a slightly over-done teen flick.		2020 Directed by: Vince Marcello Screenplay by: Vince Marcello, Jay S. Arnold Based on the book written by Beth Reekles Starring: Joey King, Jacob Elordi

The Sunlit Night: Movie Review

A mixed bag of sullenness.

On the surface, The Sunlit Night offers comedian Jenny Slate the chance to stretch her dramatic chops, but in reality it’s a mashup of three different film ideas with no clear theme or substance. In the first 10 minutes we’re treated to a quirky comedy. Frances (Slate) is a struggling New York artist living in a tiny apartment with her deranged parents and sister. The sister might be normal, but she gets left behind.		2019 Directed by: David Wnendt Screenplay by: Rebecca Knight Dinerstein Starring: Jenny Slate