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Thursday 12 May 2022
Review: Acting chemistry boosts (very) dark 'Count of Three'

By JOCELYN NOVECK we really don't know how
"On the Count of Three" is this day will resolve itself —
marketed as a "darkly com- and the authenticity of the
ic" movie. Well, there's dark lead actors, who make us
comedy and there's darker care even as we struggle
comedy, and then there's to accept some of the plot
comedy like this — so dark elements. Without these
that you wonder if the two sharply calibrated perfor-
words can realistically co- mances, the film would
exist in one sentence. flounder.
So it's not clear in which Each man is given un-
genre to place this edg- resolved conflicts, some
ily confident if bumpy and more compelling than
unsettling directorial de- others. Val, in a relatively
but from talented come- restrained performance
dian Jerrod Carmichael, a by Carmichael — who,
buddy movie that begins through his comedy, cer-
with said buddies pointing tainly has experience tak-
loaded guns at each other ing humor to bleak places
with the intention of firing at — has serious issues with
the same time (hence the his estranged father (J.B.
disturbing title.) Smoove of "Curb Your En-
Clearly things won't be go- thusiasm.") He also has to
ing perfectly to plan, be- This image released by United Artists shows Jerrod Carmichael, from left, Christopher Abbott and face up to his inability to
cause then there'd be no and JB Smooth in a scene from "On the Count of Three." be a responsible partner
more movie left. But, just Associated Press to a trusting girlfriend, Na-
a warning: The sense you tasha ("Carmichael Show"
might get right then and by the film. Without divulg- ted smoking breaks, not a The script by Ari Katcher colleague Tiffany Haddish,
there of "I'm really not sure ing too much, Val (Carmi- good sign. and Ryan Welch makes underused in a small role).
I can watch this" will likely chael) and Kevin (Abbott) Val decides to go visit Kev- a game effort throughout As for Kevin, played more
stay with you for the full are longtime friends, but in, and suddenly they're in- to toggle between humor broadly by Abbott, he has
86 minutes, even as you very different trajectories advertently presented with and pathos, levity and de- deep anger at a man, now
acknowledge the consid- have brought them to this an opportunity to break spair, with occasional hits serving his country in the
erable acting chemistry dreary parking lot. Val is Kevin out of the institution and some misses, too. (It's military, who bullied him
generated by Carmichael, working at a landscaping he's in. Thus begins a day quite a tall order, even in younger days. Worse,
directing himself, and Chris- supply store and his best in which they both seek to without the broader refer- there's the creepy doctor
topher Abbott. prospects seem to be a right the wrongs committed ences to issues like police who molested him in his
So, back to that scene. It promotion to floor man- against them, and perhaps racism and gun control.) youth. (Henry Winkler plays
comes a few hours into the ager. He begins this work some they've committed What's consistent is an un- the unfortunate medical
bleak winter's day covered day by taking all his allot- themselves. nerving unpredictability — professional).q

For auction: Marilyn's clothes, Thor's hammer, Cap's shield

like Captain America's There will be special col- rior scenes of the film "Pal
shield from "Captain Amer- lections from the estates Joey," starring Frank Sina-
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semble worn by Audrey well as legendary editor tume jewelry options worn
Hepburn as Holly Golightly Anne V. Coates' marked by Monroe, Hayworth, Judy
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"Something's Got To Give," in Los Angeles in April 1962, left, and
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