Can’t really figure out what it knows, what it doesn’t know, or how to refine the journey necessary to feel like you’ve gone anywhere.

| Original Score: C | Jun 5, 2023

Familiarity and danger rest side-by-side. The resulting movie is something off-kilter and oddly entertaining as it toggles almost imperceptibly between the all too real and the unreal.

| Feb 28, 2023

Not even Nivola’s unsettling charm can drum up intrigue into what’s underneath the surface of high society’s most hedonistic tendencies. It’s like a recipe that’s way more fun to make than it is to eat, in cooking terms.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 10, 2022

As breezy as its dreamy Mediterranean scenery, this zany comedy works thanks its fantastic cast. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 5, 2022

The tonal shifts suggest that it’s the viewer who gets spun round in “Spin Me Round.” I admired Baena and Brie’s trust that the audience will hang on for the whirlwind ride

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2022

Talented cast in passable indie comedy; sex, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2022

It’s really well done and just kind of odd but in a fun way.

| Sep 2, 2022

This is a really goofy film in a lot of ways, and it belongs to the actors... It's very amusing and has a very satisfying ending.

| Aug 26, 2022

I know an innocuous rom-com should not stir such ire in me, but Spin Me Round represents so much of what I hate in movies.

| Aug 26, 2022

It’s a missed opportunity, putting together a talented cast of funny people, but not giving them much funny stuff to do.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2022

Spin Me Round works best as an uproarious showcase for its talented comedic ensemble.

| Aug 25, 2022

Everything is thrown into the grinder of a ridiculous final act that shreds any subtextual nuance about workplace power dynamics, sexual antics, and blind romance.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

It's a treat to watch Brie slip into the part of Diane Lane, especially since she usually plays characters who are much more guarded and down-to-earth.

| Aug 25, 2022

An offbeat comedy that tries to juggle so many genres and tones that eventually the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 25, 2022

This Olive Garden spoof feels like a tourist video most of the time, but the script presents you with some winding, unpredictable detours that make for entertaining viewing. It’s an adult romance novel taken to the next level.

| Aug 24, 2022

Watching Spin Me Round, I was reminded of the phrase “jack of all trades, master of none.” It applies here – the production does a lot of things (many of them unconventional) but never leaves one fully satisfied.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2022

An endangered species—an indie comedy with an original idea, which arrives at an extremely funny comic climax. Great Pino Donaggio score.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 23, 2022

Baena appears to be gunning for Bart Freundlich’s title as the arthouse Ben Falcone.

| Aug 23, 2022

Nobody can perk up a movie like Aubrey Plaza. Pulling it down, well that is Molly Shannon's job.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 23, 2022

Some very funny performances from a great cast get too often sidelined in a search for a plot that teases darker aspirations and ends up more goofily anti-climactic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2022