![]() ![]() The boss does a bit where he forces employees to “play him out of the room” by beatboxing as he dances away this is not amusing to them or us any of the three different times that it happens in this 84-minute film. He dreams of being promoted to “real news” - a designation that the film amusingly treats like the journalism department’s actual title - but his psychotic boss (Michael Peña channeling Charlie Day) keeps him on a short leash. In other words, Phil is the model employee at the dystopian web start-up where he works, a BuzzFeed-like purgatory at which he stares he stares at his computer and hammers out mindless listicles all day long. ![]() A San Francisco millennial who has basically forced Siri into indentured servitude, Phil has allowed his phone to turn him into a mindless corporate drone it pacifies him with content and convenience, isolating him from other people and siphoning away what’s left of his ambition. That, of course, has only gotten easier in a world where everyone is in an intimate relationship with their phone, and talks to it more than they do through it. ![]() 'Smile' Review: Parker Finn's Supernatural Take on Trauma Will Make You Grimace and Grinħ New Netflix Shows in September 2022 - and the Best Reasons to Watchģ5 Disturbing Foreign Films to Watch, from Gaspar Noé to Takashi MiikeĮnamored by cell phones since he was a little kid who needed something to distract him from his parents’ divorce, Phil has ironically always used his favorite toy as a way of avoiding human connection. 'Mister Organ' Review: Meet the Most Dangerously Annoying Man in New Zealand Phil - the kind-hearted but socially dysfunctional content farm employee he plays here - is not the right outlet. The same could be said of star Adam Devine (“Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates”), a dynamic performer whose high-energy sarcasm and chipmunk charm can implode on themselves without the right outlet. Alas, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s “Jexi” is the rarest sort of extremely dumb movie: One that, even at its laziest, still feels like it has some unrealized potential. ![]()
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