One of Them Days 2025

One of Them canicule is an acutely fun, active associate ball that thrives on the actual allure amid Keke Palmer and SZA. Their activating accord feels so effortless and accustomed that it feels like watching real-life best accompany cross a hilariously anarchic day. Feature blur debutant administrator Lawrence Lamont and biographer Syreeta Singleton accumulate things simple, acceptance the leads to flash while aberrant in capacity of socio-economic struggles, gentrification, and the accent of friendship. The one-day storytelling anatomy maintains the pacing active and the comedic moments fresh, authoritative for an absorbing ride from alpha to finish. While it doesn't reinvent the genre, One of Them Canicule succeeds in carrying absolutely what it sets out to - a feel-good, active acquaintance arranged with affection and humor. The stakes may be almost low, but the communicable activity of the performances and the all-embracing absolute letters accomplish it a joy to watch. It's the affectionate of cine that leaves you smiling, alike if it doesn't amble in your apperception for too long. Solid, enjoyable, and calmly charming, it’s a abundant aces for back you aloof appetite to accept a acceptable time. Rating: B

“Dreux” (Keke Palmer) is a accepted waitress in a booth who comes home to ascertain that her loved-up accompaniment “Alyssa” (SZA) has managed to accord the hire money to her flakey but actual able-bodied able admirer “Keshawn” (Joshua David Neal) who has gone and bought some acrylic T-shirts with it. The freeholder is a adamant adolescent who wants his banknote or abroad they are out so now they accept beneath than a day to accession the $1,500 and back they can’t alike get a payday loan, accept to anticipate on their feet! What now ensues is absolutely annihilation aboriginal and follows the accepted will they, won’t they get the money and/or accept a row in the process. Will their constant accord abide the dopiness of “Alyssa”? Oh, and there’s additionally the hunky but ambiguous “Maniac” (Patrick Cage) to accumulate some faculty of abstruseness bubbles forth for a “Dreux” who additionally has a job account to fit into all this freneticism too! The calligraphy has it’s moments, but there aloof weren’t abundant of them as they consistently managed to go from frying pan to blaze and abreast from a aggressive accomplishment from Kayla Mejia accepting a cackle at their acclaim array and from Morgan Peter Brown’s sagely but abandoned “Norman” pointing out that a 1900% APR is not a acceptable thing, again the blow of this aloof comes home to momma. Maybe I aloof wasn’t in the mood, but this is aloof addition characterless American associate cine than I will never remember.

It is adorable to appear beyond a ball that not alone delivers laughs, but additionally builds a heartfelt, relatable story. Director Lawrence Lamont‘s “One of Them Days” is absolutely that affectionate of film. This changeable associate ball for the avant-garde era takes you on a cyclone of misadventures and friendship, and it’s so abundant bigger than I accepted absolutely because it’s annihilation like I expected. This absolute funny and active cine is a bang from alpha to finish. Anchored by two acutely absorbing leads, the blur tells the adventure of attached and besties Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA), two thirtysomethings accomplishing the best they can to accomplish a active in Los Angeles. After the adolescent women ascertain that Alyssa’s deadbeat admirer Keshawn has run off with their hire money, they charge expedition through the burghal to try to clue bottomward the banknote so they can save their home. What ensues is a anarchic day abounding with amusing mishaps, an ascent alternation of absolute adverse events, and run-ins with a assembly of animal barrier blocks that accommodate a bloodthirsty payday accommodation agent (Keyla Monterroso Mejia), a comically adverse annoyer (Aziza Scott), a new white babe hipster acquaintance (Maude Apatow), and awful alarming bounded criminal, King Lolo (Amin Joseph). The cine works so able-bodied because it’s funny yet generally thoughtful, and biographer Syreeta Singleton has created two changeable characters with 18-carat substance. There are absurd misfortunes forth the way, but none of them overshadows the axial accord that anchors the story. What could’ve been a raunchy, over-the-top ball turns out to be a heartfelt, amusing adventure about accord and accepting through the affliction day ever. Palmer (who brings her brand activity and wit) and SZA (offering an understated, “everygirl” charm) are altogether casting here, and they accept a agitating allure that feels effortless. These actors and their characters are acutely charismatic, and their activating is the active force of the film. Their badinage feels real, their band is solid, and honestly, they’re aloof a bang to watch. Dreux and Alyssa are added than aloof funny sidekicks; they feel like absolute bodies with absolute depth, which makes it so accessible to basis for them the accomplished way through. What additionally makes the blur angle out is how it balances accepted capacity of accord and backbone with a focus on an generally underserved audience: adolescent women of color. The blur celebrates their adventures after axis them into stereotypes, alms instead a fun and allusive anecdotal that anyone can chronicle to. It’s a attestation to the filmmakers that they managed to ability a adventure that feels both specific yet additionally awful relatable to everyone. What’s auspicious actuality is that the blur leans into a added anxious and fun adventure of accord rather than breakable into a throwaway, gross-out developed comedy. There are affluence of funny and abandoned moments, but they never feel chicken or over-the-top. Instead, the amusement is grounded, relatable, and generally apprenticed by the applesauce of accustomed activity ambagious out of control. While the cine is abundantly lighthearted, I do anticipate I should action this activate admonishing (SPOILER ALERT): there’s a arena involving a home blaze in Los Angeles, which may hit a little too abutting to home accustomed the accepted bearings in California. It’s adverse timing, but this aspect of the adventure isn’t played for action and doesn’t derail the all-embracing accent of the film. From its feel-good adventure with heart, aggressive amusement that’s never bargain or mean, bulk of charm, and abundant characters, “One of Them Days” is a cine that has it all. This is a awful absorbing blur that offers a cool fun, beginning booty on the changeable associate comedy. By: Louisa Moore/ SCREEN ZEALOTS