Y2K is ultimately less than the sum of its retro-styled parts.
The film increasingly gives into the sentimental clichés of the genre that it gleefully mocks.
Writer-director Augustine Frizzell’s film is funny and surprisingly tender, if at times frustratingly uneven.
Mooney talked to us about nostalgia, VHS collecting, and getting trolled by Donald Trump.
Brigsby Bear’s uneven narrative is sometimes only as frustrating as a little static on an old VHS.
Michael Showalter is content to trade They Came Together’s mischievous genre deconstructionism for cheap-shot indie quirk.
The film is frequently guilty of the same obsolescence it accuses the characters of embodying.