Broad City’s Ilana Glazer makes an impressive dramatic debut in an often incisive yet ultimately messy film about a creepy fertility doctor
There’s guts, both figuratively and literally, in the ambitious, uneasy new thriller False Positive, a minor A24 production premiering on Hulu in the US, that takes a familiar roadmap and litters it with left turns. Crudely put, it’s a Rosemary’s Baby riff for millennials, a sleek update on an ever-effective conceit that reframes the bliss of pregnancy as a terrifying body horror. Roman Polanski’s film gave birth to numerous imitators, most of which stuck to the increasingly overused blueprint and there’s something to admire here about what writer-director John Lee and his co-writer and star Ilana Glazer try to do, even if their gamble doesn’t entirely pay off.
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There’s guts, both figuratively and literally, in the ambitious, uneasy new thriller False Positive, a minor A24 production premiering on Hulu in the US, that takes a familiar roadmap and litters it with left turns. Crudely put, it’s a Rosemary’s Baby riff for millennials, a sleek update on an ever-effective conceit that reframes the bliss of pregnancy as a terrifying body horror. Roman Polanski’s film gave birth to numerous imitators, most of which stuck to the increasingly overused blueprint and there’s something to admire here about what writer-director John Lee and his co-writer and star Ilana Glazer try to do, even if their gamble doesn’t entirely pay off.
Related: Good on Paper review – Netflix dating comedy is Ok on screen
Continue reading.
- 6/25/2021
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
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