Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We know each other,” says an assured Domino (Dakota Johnson) to Andrew (Cooper Raiff), the uninhibitedly goofy and kind-spirited ...

(JTA) — A new Jewish coming-of-age movie begins with the hero, at age 12, getting rejected by an older girl at a bar mitzvah. Then the movie jumps to a decade later, as the main character embarks on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everybody clap your hands. "Cha Cha Real Smooth," Cooper Raiff’s coming-of-age dramedy about a charismatic party starter, was a ...

This film opens with a young boy around twelve-years-old named Andrew having a crush on a female party hostess (Kelly O’Sullivan). He tells his mom (the always superb Leslie Mann) that he is in love ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

CHICAGO - Editor's note: This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2022. It has been expanded and republished in light of the film's premiere in ...

From the perspective of filmmaker Cooper Raiff, Cha Cha Real Smooth embodies a specific kind of “feel-good” spirit of which he’s always in pursuit. The Sundance Audience Award winner is the ...

This review of “Cha Cha Real Smooth” was first published on January 22 after the film’s premiere at Sundance. “We know each other,” says an assured Domino (Dakota Johnson) to Andrew (Cooper Raiff), ...

It's a truth universally accepted that your early 20s suck, and they may suck now more than they have in quite a while. The post-college blues have become urgent, with a sense that if you don't know ...

The writer-director-actor's sophomore feature pairs him with Dakota Johnson for a maybe/maybe-not love story. By John DeFore Building on the strengths of his justly celebrated debut, maintaining its ...