Am I OK? (2022)

As Tig Notaro fans, we were eager to see her feature directorial debut about quirky millennial best friends/roommates: self-absorbed Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and practical Jane (Sonoya Mizuno), fighting and making up and dealing with big life changes, and we enjoyed it, though the still of Johnson weeping is a bit off-putting, especially since it's a dramedy. Notaro has a funny cameo in the second act in an intentionally terrible wig.

Notaro co-directs this buddy picture with her wife Stephanie Allynne (also a directorial debut) from a script by Lauren Pomerantz.

Craig Wedren is credited with the soundtrack (none of his tracks for this picture is available online) with additional music by Annie Clark, which is the birth name of the artist known as St. Vincent, and who happens to BFFs with Johnson. All 23 songs, the last written and performed by Clark, are listed here.

Johnson was last blogged for Cha Cha Real Smooth (and shot this back to back to back with it and The Lost Daughter), Mizuno for Crazy Rich Asians, Notaro for acting in Together Together, and Wedren for A Futile and Stupid Gesture. This is also a feature directorial debut for Pomerantz, who is credited with writing 825 episodes of The Ellen DeGeneres Show and twenty of SNL, among others. I've heard of Clark/St. Vincent, but do not know her work.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics are more than OK, averaging 81% while its audiences are a bit less so with 65. Jack and I streamed it on MAX (formerly known as HBO) with our subscription on July 1.

I'm intentionally posting this and Babes the same day, as both are feminist buddy pictures--this being very Los Angeles and the other very New York.