‘The Adults’ Review: Michael Cera in an Artful Family Drama

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‘The Adults’ Review: Michael Cera in an Artful Family Drama
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The actor plays an aloof man who returns to his hometown and begrudgingly reunites with his siblings in this film from Dustin Guy Defa.

Cringe comedy is a well-established genre, but if you extracted the humor from it, you’d be left with something like “The Adults,” whose central character keeps trying to be funny

but winds up merely pathetic, and not in the unintentionally hilarious way that Michael Scott did on “The Office.” Yet he ends up oddly sympathetic.Continue reading your article with

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