![]() ![]() ![]() (Speaking of late-emerging title cards, if “ Drive My Car” was a bridge too far for you in that department, wait until “Fresh” sneakily asserts, “Hold my Old Fashioned!”) But it’s not until the title card “Fresh” appears more than 30 minutes into the film that they will be spelled out for all their grotesqueness. (Why not just say, “I’m a vegetarian?”) Other clues will hint shades of this mystery man’s unusual tastebuds, too. To the careful ear, “I don’t eat animals” from his lips will ring one or two alarm bells. They will seem shady enough to the viewers too, thanks to Lauryn Kahn’s zippy script and Cave’s visual language that, in unison, suggest enough of an unease beneath Steve’s casual allure. No social media footprint? Not even an Instagram page as someone who claims to be a plastic surgeon? To Mollie, these are all red flags. Gibbs) who seems to have given up on men completely, has much sharper instincts. ![]() Thankfully, her droll, bisexual best-friend Mollie (a terrific Jojo T. You can’t-hey, it’s the ever-appealing Stan we’re talking about-but you are allowed to raise a slight eyebrow when this practical woman completely trusts a perfect stranger she only just met at a supermarket aisle, by allowing him to whisk her away to a surprise weekend getaway to an unknown location. So can you really blame Noa for rapidly buying into the grand gestures of Sebastian Stan’s traditional charmer Steve on the heels of this disastrous evening and falling to bed with him? He feels entitled enough to grab all the leftovers, not hold the door for Noa (What happened to all that “parents’ generation” talk?) and calls her a stuck-up bitch when his reach for a kiss doesn’t get reciprocated. “You would look great in a dress,” he rudely tells the sweater-donned Noa, putting her down for not being into femininity “like the women of his parents’ generation.” He insults their waitress with blatant racism. A cheapskate (“Bring cash,” he reminds Noa before the date even takes place), Chad chews his noodles while spewing all sorts of stomach-churning vitriol. We get introduced to Noa in a pitch-perfect opening scene during a horrendous date with one of those aforesaid scarf-wearers. ![]()
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