Review: Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus power the barbed humor behind Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill’s stingingly funny rom-com
.” Not to slight Hill, who co-produced the film and co-wrote the sharp, occasionally bloodletting screenplay with Barris, but, raunch aside, the film mostly has one man’s fingerprints all over it.
Hill plays Ezra Cohen, a Jewish stock broker in LA, steeped in hip-hop culture, who dreams of quitting his day job to pursue in earnest the podcast he produces with his best friend Mo , a Black lesbian whose whip-smart repartee with her on-air partner, peppered with knowing pop riffs, plays under the opening credits. London’s Amira is a fashion designer, and the two of them — not entirely improbably and with surprising chemistry — fall hard for each other.
Ladies and gentleman, sit back, relax and watch the fireworks, including one literally inflammatory scene in which Ezra’s neurotic mother accidentally sets fire to the prized kufi — a gift from Louis Farrakhan — worn by Murphy’s character, a Muslim convert, during a prickly dinner-table conversation that jumps from slavery to the Holocaust, not just in the ways those events bind the two groups, but in the waysAmira’s mother and Ezra’s father are excellent in supporting roles, if more taciturn...
“You People” sounds preachy, doesn’t it? Trust me, it’s not. What it really is is a master class on wedge issues and our shared humanity, delivered by comedians who know that laughter can be at once a bitter pill and the best medicine.Available on Netflix; also in theaters. Contains strong language throughout, some sexuality and drug use. 118 minutes.
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