REVIEW: C’mon C’mon [2021]

Lots of blah blah blah. The cross-generational dramedies about the relationships between children and adults continues for Mike Mills with his latest C’mon C’mon about a professionally busy and personally listless documentarian who fatefully reconnects with his estranged sister at a moment when she desperately needs him. Why are they estranged? We get glimpses of Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and Viv (Gaby Hoffmann) screaming at each other, the ways in which they cope with their mother’s death driving a wedge between. But there’s also allusions to the misguided advice he gave…

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