FILM REVIEW

Good Grief review — a dreadful rom-com about nincompoops

Dan Levy of Schitt’s Creek directs, writes and stars in a film that’s as unfunny as it is annoying
Kevin Maher
The Times
Jamael Westman as Terrance, Himesh Patel as Thomas, Ruth Negga as Sophie and Daniel Levy as Marc in Good Grief
Jamael Westman as Terrance, Himesh Patel as Thomas, Ruth Negga as Sophie and Daniel Levy as Marc in Good Grief
NETFLIX
Kevin Maher
The Times

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Good grief indeed! Brave title for the film directed and written by and starring the Schitt’s Creek actor and showrunner Dan Levy, who demonstrates the yawning chasm between disposable sitcoms and credible cinema. Levy’s character work is truly horrible, and he constructs an entire London and Paris-set rom-com around three of the most odious, navel-gazing nincompoops in the genre (and that includes Good Luck Chuck and License to Wed).

First there’s Sophie, an oversized role of “hot mess” best friend that seems designed only to torpedo the career of Oscar-nominated Ruth Negga (Loving). Sophie, who does something in fashion, is a grating caricature who is always set to 11, pirouettes across a room when she could walk and might have worked