‘Sharp Stick’ Film Review: Lena Dunham’s First Feature in a Decade Feels Overly Familiar
thewrap.comiveté of Alana Haim’s Alana Kane in “Licorice Pizza.” Sarah Jo is placed as a caregiver in the family of Zach (Liam Michel Saux), his hip, white-dude-who-raps, stay-at-home dad, Josh (Jon Bernthal), and nagging, very pregnant realtor mom, Heather (Dunham).
When Treina, through a little social-media sleuthing, catches her man hanging out with his ex’s cousin at Universal Studios, Marilyn offers this advice: “You wanna know if he is really yours?
You look him in the eye and you say, ‘Do you find me beautiful?’ It’s foolproof . . . The truth — men love a problem. Interesting men, you know, like complicated men, they love a backstory.” But it is Sarah Jo who internalizes this lesson and proceeds to test it on Josh, exposing her scar and oversharing her hysterectomy procedure.
Though Josh initially resists, the prospect of deflowering a virgin is apparently too good for him to pass up. The torrid affair that follows doesn’t break any new ground, though.
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