About two-thirds of the way into this English-language remake of the 2015 German drama “We Monsters,” Jay, a divorced dad who has the pinging cellphone of a (presumed) murder victim in his possession, screams to his ex-wife Rebecca, “What do you want from me? I made one mistake!”This line provides the only (inadvertent, to be sure) laugh in this humorless, woebegone, overwrought exercise in bourgeois cinematic misery-mongering. Because boy, oh boy, up to this point Jay has made a busload of mistakes, and really dumb ones at that. Jay and Rebecca, played by Peter Sarsgaard and Mireille Enos, are discontented in divorce (he’s a hipster musician, she a buttoned-up-and-down lawyer), with a problem child, Kayla. Joey King, considerably less bubbly here than in “The Kissing Booth,” the 2018 release that made her a sensation, plays Kayla.

Source: New York Times October 06, 2020 11:01 UTC