Aardvark

Name: Aardvark
Genre: Drama
Released: April 13, 2018
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Dale Soules, Jacinto Taras Riddick, Jenny Slate, Jon Hamm, Marin Ireland

2018

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Great Point Media | Release Date: April 13, 2018 | PG-13

Starring: Dale Soules, Jacinto Taras Riddick, Jenny Slate, Jon Hamm, Marin Ireland, Peter Grosz, Sheila Vand, Stephen Schnetzer, Tonya Pinkins, Zachary Quinto

Summary: Emily Milburton’s (Jenny Slate) newest therapy patient is Josh Norman (Zachary Quinto), an emotionally challenged introvert who suffers from increasingly volatile hallucinations. Most pressing though, is his estranged relationship with his brother, Craig (Jon Hamm), a famous TV actor who just so happens to be in town for a visit. So what’sEmily Milburton’s (Jenny Slate) newest therapy patient is Josh Norman (Zachary Quinto), an emotionally challenged introvert who suffers from increasingly volatile hallucinations. Most pressing though, is his estranged relationship with his brother, Craig (Jon Hamm), a famous TV actor who just so happens to be in town for a visit. So what’s the worst that could happen when Craig shows up on Emily’s doorstep?… Expand

Director: Brian Shoaf

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 89 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 4, 2018

First time feature writer-director Brian Shoaf stages some painfully awkward, sensitive and probing counseling sessions for Slate and Quinto to play. The script has lovely snatches of dialogue and fascinating, wounded characters. Read full review

John DeFore

Apr 28, 2017

A filmmaking decision at the end of the film thumbs its nose at us, with the language of editing seeming to contradict the message of Shoaf's screenplay. Read full review

David D'Arcy

Apr 28, 2017

Brian Shoaf does not break any new ground in Aardvark (besides featuring an actual aardvark in an independent film), yet his pairing of stalwart female characters with troubled men is a welcome twist of gender stereotypes. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Apr 16, 2018

A hard-to-swallow drama about sibling rivalry, mental illness, and bad therapy. Cobbled together using clichés and contrivances, Brian Shoaf’s feature debut perceives mental illness more as a personality quirk than a sickness and treats it almost as a kind of magical realism. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Apr 28, 2017

Aardvark is the sort of movie that gets by with its unpredictable where-is-this-going vibe for about a half-hour or so.... But it becomes apparent at a certain point that the set-up is pretty much all there is to this movie. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Apr 12, 2018

Despite a strong lead cast and good intentions, Aardvark is a drag. Writer-director Brian Shoaf may have much to say about family dysfunction and its emotional effects but never finds a persuasive enough way to mine this oft-tread territory. Read full review

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Apr 12, 2018

Aardvark, the first feature from writer-director Brian Shoaf, is so inane that several times it put this critic into a fugue state. Meandering in message or plot, the film proves to be not just incoherent but excruciatingly boring, quite a feat with a cast that includes Jenny Slate, Jon Hamm, Sheila Vand, and, sure, Zachary Quinto. Read full review

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Bizzylorenzo70

Aug 7, 2018

Feature debut of writer and director Brian Shoaf has a strong cast but the storyline is just too obtuse, choppy, and meandering.It's only at the end that things come together but it's too little too late. Is Jenny Slate's character the worst therapist in the history of movies, for the wayFeature debut of writer and director Brian Shoaf has a strong cast but the storyline is just too obtuse, choppy, and meandering.It's only at the end that things come together but it's too little too late. Is Jenny Slate's character the worst therapist in the history of movies, for the way she speeds through every therapist/client no-no and stop sign?… Expand

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