Roosevelt,” Emily Martin, a young comedic performer living (not all that well) in Los Angeles, takes a costly last-minute flight back to her former home in Austin, Tex., to visit the now-ailing cat she left there with her ex-boyfriend. The cat, also this movie’s title character, has some metaphoric weight, representing the life Emily left behind. As portrayed by the film’s writer and director, Noël Wells, Emily, while mercurially talented, has little idea where she’s going. Under Jen’s wing, Emily gets reacquainted with the less proper side of Austin, in which she’s still sometimes at a loss. (The repurposing of a gag I first saw in “Meet the Parents,” concerning the contents of an urn, was rather uninspired.)

Source: New York Times November 21, 2017 12:00 UTC