Like all of 2020, Coastal Elites does too many things at once to ultimately do most of them well.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 17, 2023

Roach and Rudnick take the most popular type of people and, by epigrammatic, provocative script, make Coastal Elites an excellent pandemic watch. Once you think you can relax and laugh, they hit you with a twist that stimulates reflection.

| Original Score: B | Feb 11, 2022

Essentially amounts to an alternate cut of last month's Democratic National Convention, marked by the same laziness of form and messaging.

| Jun 5, 2021

Coastal Elites is so busy being mad about Trump that it forgets to be about anything else at all.

| Oct 2, 2020

The television play is compassionate and true and (this is Paul Rudnick) very funny.

| Oct 1, 2020

A smug, self-defeating dud that has nothing new to say about the Trump era

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2020

While this waters down the film's salient points, it should at least get us thinking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2020

It's about as direct in its play to the anti-Trump crowd as it can possibly be. Nevertheless, I can't help but wonder who actually has the stomach for Rudnick's Trump-enraged quarantine view into the left-leaning electorate psyche.

| Sep 14, 2020

Coastal Elites' flaws begin with its uninspired screenplay and blandly written ensemble.

| Sep 14, 2020

Since it's not saying anything new or offering much in the way of entertainment, it simply feels like an endless, exhausting echo of the exact parts of our lives that drive us to seek escape in the movies.

| Sep 14, 2020

Offers enough talent, laughs, pathos and outright venting to warrant watching it.

| Sep 14, 2020

Despite the star power that's been amassed and the obvious craft these actors display, this collection is good for a few familiar chuckles and not much more.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 11, 2020

Paul Rudnick has embraced the soliloquy as the defining art form of the era of social distance, where we poor players strut and fret our hours on the webcam.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2020

Each of the actors holds attention expertly, ranging through emotions seamlessly, with Roach making only a few cuts within each monologue.

| Sep 10, 2020

While the five monologues presented don't seek to convert anyone, they do encapsulate the rage and confusion Trump's election unleashed within the zip codes that conservatives dismiss, while elevating shot-during-quarantine 온라인카지노추천 to new heights.

| Sep 10, 2020

So why can't I forgive Coastal Elites for being not so good? I think it's because the show reminds me of the things about the form I hope don't come back, even though I spend every day missing live performance.

| Sep 10, 2020

I owe Paul Rudnick an apology. While I was complaining he wasn't posting his gloriously acerbic tweets enough, he was shaping this series of monologues about life as it is now, reminding us with a poignant hilarity, we are not alone.

| Sep 10, 2020

Yes, "Coastal Elites" is worth seeing. Yes, it's a good movie. The acting is strong. The writing is funny and affecting. It is difficult to take your eyes away from it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 10, 2020

Callie's wine-flavored tale of the attempts of performatively attentive school acquaintance Ivanka to charm the activist into joining her father's side is, in Rae's hands, riveting, ultimately chilling stuff.

| Original Score: B | Sep 10, 2020

With a stellar cast of four current Emmy nominees and a past winner, in performances shot in quarantine, these hysterical if uneven showcases have the impact of soul-baring catharsis.

| Sep 10, 2020