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- 2020
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
- 2020
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
Summary After her partner breaks up with her on her 39th birthday, Gaby tackles her fears of loneliness as well as preconceptions of what it means for a woman to be single.
Written By: Andrea Dorfman, Jennifer Deyell
- 2020
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
- 2020
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
Spinster
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Summary After her partner breaks up with her on her 39th birthday, Gaby tackles her fears of loneliness as well as preconceptions of what it means for a woman to be single.
Written By: Andrea Dorfman, Jennifer Deyell
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Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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44% Mixed
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11% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
56
44% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Spinster adds up to more than the sum of its parts, even if its primary takeaway — a woman doesn’t need a man to be happy and/or successful, yada yada — is hardly ground-breaking.
Spinster isn’t a particularly visually arresting film, nor is it bursting with memorable and colorful supporting players. It’s simply an effective vehicle for Chelsea Peretti to expand upon her smart/cynical persona to include some genuine heart and likability as well.
If anything, the picture is a touch too benign for its own good, though it does earn enough laughs to warrant a recommendation, at least in its first third.
It’s as inoffensive and pleasant as a primetime sitcom, although a bit more bite — and interest in food, given the heroine’s profession — might have added some plausibility and verisimilitude.
The film’s inherent messiness and unpredictability eventually settles into more expected charms, but Spinster is at its most appealing when leaning into the very ideas it seemed hellbent on rejecting early on.
It’s easy enough to sit through, but the entire affair is more deflating than heartening.
What’s increasingly bewildering and perversely curious is how unpleasant Spinster is, in almost every regard: The lighting is atrocious, the framing is erratic and Ms. Peretti’s comedy, which is generally about demolishing the banalities that constitute most human interaction, may well have the audience saying, “Well, of course Gaby’s alone. She’s intolerable.”
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