Film Review: Brigsby Bear Is Simple, Weird, Imperfect & Kind
In the limited pantheon of released-into-the-world-after-spending-years-in-a-bunker movies, Kyle Mooney's Brigsby Bear is more Blast from the Past than Room. That is to say, it celebrates its central character's detachment from reality and social convention rather than examining the prolonged isolation for obvious dramatic depth. Of course, unlike the late 90s mainstream rom-com stylings of Blast from the Past, Brigsy Bear goes about telling its story in such a supremely 2017 indie comedy way. This is, after all, a movie in which a man attempts to film the final episode of his favorite children's TV show - a TV show that ...