Written and directed by Nadine Labaki
Starring Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw and Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
Running time: 2 hours and 6 minutes
Rated R because it acknowledges that drugs exist and a kid with a shitty upbringing swears a little.

by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy

I went into this film knowing virtually nothing about it. IMDb said it was about a kid that was suing his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. All of this seemed to be represented with a mix of heart and humor and, I gotta say, this appeals to my brand of wry nihilism. So I was interested in checking it out. However, while looking up cast and crew info in preparation for writing this, I stumbled across a number of people bickering back and forth online about the social and political motives of some of the people involved in the film and some questionable things in their pasts. I’ll tell you, after twenty minutes of going down the internet rabbit hole of trying to see what was truth and what was bullshit in these arguments, I’ve got zero resolution and am merely more annoyed with humanity.