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Movie Review: ONE OF THEM DAYS (2025)
Nothing tickles a loan shark (Keyla Monterroso Mejia) quite like a low credit score.
ONE OF THESE DAYS (2025) Lawrence Lamont. Writer: Syreeta Singleton / Photographer: Ava Berkofsky (2.35:1) / Design: Monique Dias / Music: Chanda Dancy / Cast: Keke Palmer, SZA, Katt Williams, Joshua David Neal, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Patrick Cage, Amin Joseph, Maude Apatow, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Janelle James, and Rizi Timane / Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing / Rated R / Running Time: 97 min.
A female-driven variant of Friday that goes down over the course of the first day of the month and concerns two crazy roommates who have until midnight to make rent. What little plot there is revolves around Dreux (Keke Palmer) — a waitress at Norm’s with an afternoon interview for a management position — and her idle BFF Alyssa (SZA) whose own skillset is limited to finding others to foot the bill. It’s Alyssa who sets in motion the days’ madness by entrusting the rent money to her entrepreneur (read: ne’er-do-well) boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) ,who is quick to invest the cash in a line of designer Cucci t-shirts. That kicks off an on-screen countdown clock that shifts from “Eviction” to “Certain Death” over the course of the film's running time.
A good chunk of director Lawrence Lamont’s refreshingly vulgar buddy comedy is powered by its own absurd logic: God heals all things, even the lactose intolerant; a tumbleweave is the result of scalping a black person. Screenwriter Syreeta Singleton takes a bite out of payday loan stores, which throw poverty-stricken consumers feet-first into a never-ending hamster wheel of debt. The leads are ideally paired, but Keyla Monterroso Mejia scores the film’s biggest laughs as the soul-flattening loan officer.
Every film is allowed one coincidence, the earlier, the better. In this case, happenstance arrives two-thirds of the way through the picture, and is later compounded by an unmotivated and utterly lunkheaded need to end up in happily-ever-after land. 2025. ** (Wide Release)
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Movie Review: ONE OF THEM DAYS (2025)
Movie Review: ONE OF THEM DAYS (2025)
Nothing tickles a loan shark (Keyla Monterroso Mejia) quite like a low credit score.
ONE OF THESE DAYS (2025) Lawrence Lamont. Writer: Syreeta Singleton / Photographer: Ava Berkofsky (2.35:1) / Design: Monique Dias / Music: Chanda Dancy / Cast: Keke Palmer, SZA, Katt Williams, Joshua David Neal, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Patrick Cage, Amin Joseph, Maude Apatow, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Janelle James, and Rizi Timane / Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing / Rated R / Running Time: 97 min.
A female-driven variant of Friday that goes down over the course of the first day of the month and concerns two crazy roommates who have until midnight to make rent. What little plot there is revolves around Dreux (Keke Palmer) — a waitress at Norm’s with an afternoon interview for a management position — and her idle BFF Alyssa (SZA) whose own skillset is limited to finding others to foot the bill. It’s Alyssa who sets in motion the days’ madness by entrusting the rent money to her entrepreneur (read: ne’er-do-well) boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) ,who is quick to invest the cash in a line of designer Cucci t-shirts. That kicks off an on-screen countdown clock that shifts from “Eviction” to “Certain Death” over the course of the film's running time.
A good chunk of director Lawrence Lamont’s refreshingly vulgar buddy comedy is powered by its own absurd logic: God heals all things, even the lactose intolerant; a tumbleweave is the result of scalping a black person. Screenwriter Syreeta Singleton takes a bite out of payday loan stores, which throw poverty-stricken consumers feet-first into a never-ending hamster wheel of debt. The leads are ideally paired, but Keyla Monterroso Mejia scores the film’s biggest laughs as the soul-flattening loan officer.
Every film is allowed one coincidence, the earlier, the better. In this case, happenstance arrives two-thirds of the way through the picture, and is later compounded by an unmotivated and utterly lunkheaded need to end up in happily-ever-after land. 2025. ** (Wide Release)
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