Aubrey Plaza Reviews and Articles | Little White Lies

Talent Aubrey Plaza

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Review

Black Bear

by Ben Nicholson

Aubrey Plaza plays an indie film­mak­er who seeks inspi­ra­tion at a lake house retreat in this ambigu­ous slow-burner.

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Child’s Play

by Adam Woodward

The toy ter­ror is back with a vengeance in this enter­tain­ing­ly grue­some slash­er reboot.

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Review

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn

by David Jenkins

Aubrey Plaza endures a wild, weird night in Jim Hosking’s turgid fol­low-up to The Greasy Strangler.

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Ingrid Goes West

by Matthew Eng

Aubrey Plaza plays a very mod­ern kind of anti­heroine in Matt Spicer’s dark­ly com­ic social media satire.

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

by Elena Lazic

Zac Efron and Adam Devine play hap­less dude­bro broth­ers in this sil­ly, sur­pris­ing­ly offen­sive comedy.

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Dirty Grandpa

by Matt Thrift

Robert De Niro hits an all-time low along­side Zac Efron in this insuf­fer­able road trip comedy.

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Life After Beth

by Rebecca Ellis

The com­e­dy inher­ent in a human/​zombie love pair­ing doesn’t get this tired and unam­bi­tious genre pas­tiche very far.

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