Awkwafina’s ‘Jackpot!’ Prizes Bored Indifference
A film so boring and stilted, I couldn’t even be entertained by what makes it so painstakingly bad.
A film so boring and stilted, I couldn’t even be entertained by what makes it so painstakingly bad.
Phillipa Soo does solid work in untangling Emma’s internal conflict, but, opposite her leading men, often appears as if she’d rather not be there.
As corny, unoriginal, and downright clunky as the premise is, an added Asian immigrant parent–child relationship lends emotional complexity.