The Weekend

    The Weekend
    2019

    Synopsis

    A comedian goes away for the weekend with an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.

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      Cast

      • Sasheer ZamataZadie Barber
      • Tone BellBradford Collins
      • DeWanda WiseMargo Johnson
      • Kym WhitleyKaren Barber
      • Y'lan NoelAubrey
      • Josefina LanderosDiana Davis-Dyer

      Recommendations

      • 70

        Los Angeles Times

        The Weekend is as easygoing as its title implies, a loose, lovely complement to Meghie’s more polished studio film “Everything, Everything.”
      • 70

        Variety

        Notwithstanding any comparisons, there’s more assured personality here than there was in her last feature, the bright, proficient but somewhat synthetic big-studio teen romance “Everything, Everything.” Much of that film took place, by narrative necessity, in hermetically sealed rooms; here, the fresh autumn air agrees with everyone involved.
      • 70

        The Hollywood Reporter

        There’s a lot to enjoy here in the performances of an appealing ensemble and the teasing, testy romantic badinage in which they engage.
      • 67

        IndieWire

        Deadpan in her delivery and facial expressions, Zadie is indeed a mess, but she’s working her way toward something better, and Meghie’s frisky comedy gives her the space to make some strides. As the weekend amusingly crumbles around her and the rest of her cohorts, Zamata tentatively approaches something like maturity (and definitely like getting the hell over Bradford), giving shape to a mostly freeform narrative.
      • 38

        RogerEbert.com

        By the time Margo finally announces that she’s ready to leave, I was eager to gather my things and join her in escaping this would-be comedy.