Stuck in Neutral: Cohn Cooks Up Sensitive (and Hilarious) Fast Food Tragedy
Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and guilt. In a superb of-the-moment character study, Richard Jenkins is perfect as longtime fast-food worker Stanley, the quintessential put-upon everyman (even his character’s laugh sounds desperate); promising newcomer Shane Paul McGhie plays Jevon, an ex-con father and new employee whom Stanley has to train. For those expecting a cheerful odd couple dramedy, think again: while The Last Shift dishes plenty of unexpected laughter, it’s no escapist fantasy; instead, Cohn (a documentary filmmaker) has the guts to examine economic and racial bias, contradictions and chaos included.…...
Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and guilt. In a superb of-the-moment character study, Richard Jenkins is perfect as longtime fast-food worker Stanley, the quintessential put-upon everyman (even his character’s laugh sounds desperate); promising newcomer Shane Paul McGhie plays Jevon, an ex-con father and new employee whom Stanley has to train. For those expecting a cheerful odd couple dramedy, think again: while The Last Shift dishes plenty of unexpected laughter, it’s no escapist fantasy; instead, Cohn (a documentary filmmaker) has the guts to examine economic and racial bias, contradictions and chaos included.…...
- 9/21/2020
- by Dylan Kai Dempsey
- IONCINEMA.com
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