Stress Positions

Name: Stress Positions
Genre: Comedy
Released: April 19, 2024
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Amy Zimmer, Elias Abawi, Elizabeth Dement, Faheem Ali, Felipe di Poi

2024

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

No score yet

tbd

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

tbd	Your Score
tbd	User Score No score yet

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Play Sound

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:

You are not allowed to view this material at this time.

Stress Positions

Now Playing: Stress Positions

Movie Details & Credits

Neon | Release Date: April 19, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Amy Zimmer, Elias Abawi, Elizabeth Dement, Faheem Ali, Felipe di Poi, Gordon Landenberger, John Early, John Roberts, Qaher Harhash, Rebecca F. Wright, Theda Hammel

Summary: Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew — a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul — bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model.

Director: Theda Hammel

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

See All Details and Credits

Watch Now

Stream On

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Jan 23, 2024

In its wryly amusing self-awareness at all turns, the film actively and relentlessly lampoons the very language and gesturing we all affect in trying to broach the political maelstrom of identity politics. Read full review

Murtada Elfadl

Jan 23, 2024

In real life, anyone would hate to spend even a few minutes in their company. Yet in Hammel’s hands, they become easy to enjoy and laugh at while completely understanding their full awful personalities. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

May 1, 2024

With shimmer, shadow and verve, Stress Positions . . . captures the often hallucinatory pandemonium wrought by that “long-ago” moment. Read full review

The Playlist Gregory Ellwood

Jan 23, 2024

Hammel has talent and something to say that’s worth paying attention to. There’s a spark of something there, eventually. It’s a little messy, but it’s definitely there. It also just might take a while before you want to hear it. Read full review

Clint Worthington

Jan 29, 2024

Amid Hammel’s acid-tongued approach and jaundiced eye, there’s a lot of intriguing potential; after all, cinema that imperfectly confronts is oftentimes more interesting than comfortable competence. Read full review

Zachary Barnes

Apr 18, 2024

The movie has its funny moments, and even some halfway-poignant ones, but it occasionally gives one the feeling of watching a bawdy New York-set sitcom and listening to a segment of “This American Life” at the same time. Read full review

David Rooney

Jan 23, 2024

While Hammel might be aiming for an ensemble comedy, Stress Positions lacks focus; the director can’t seem to decide who should be the heart of her shapeless narrative, a feeling compounded by dueling voiceovers. Read full review

SEE ALL 13 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

No reviews yet.