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‘The Outside Story’ Review: An Irresistible Brian Tyree Henry Grounds a Minor-Key Brooklyn Breakup Comedy

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Guy Lodge Film CriticIt’s the cardigan that’s the giveaway. For the duration of “The Outside Story,” Brooklyn filmmaker Charles (Brian Tyree Henry) wears the kind of roomy, shapeless, porridge-colored knitwear item that is established movie code for a hero in dire need of a full life reset.

Thirtysomething and recently separated from his more glamorous girlfriend, Charles has settled into a schlubby, hermetic tailspin, poring obsessively over editing work and leaving his apartment only to collect takeout delivery.

Casimir Koznowski’s lightweight character comedy is set in a pre-pandemic New York, when such behavior wasn’t universally familiar, and we weren’t all clinging to some food-stained version of that same cardigan: Everyone’s advice.

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