The chatter surrounding Emily the Criminal has suggested that this is her first “serious” role, but the seeds for it were planted at least five years ago, in Matt Spicer’s unruly satire Ingrid Goes West. It’s an unnervingly naked and beautiful performance, one that taps straight into the stressful tremors of everyday life, the anxieties most of us feel every day but rarely dare to acknowledge.Ĭourtesy of Roadside Attractions and Vertical EntertainmentĪs disparate as these two roles are, it’s not hard to trace their roots in Plaza’s other work. All comic performers hide to some degree behind their comedy, but here, Plaza drops the veil completely. But in Emily the Criminal, beyond the occasional line or two, Plaza’s turn isn’t funny at all. Spin Me Round is one of those comedies that keeps you guessing where it’s headed, and though Plaza’s role is small, her trademark eyeroll is key to its nutty spirit. And in the enjoyably out-there comedy Spin Me Round, directed by Jeff Baena, who also cowrote the script with the movie’s star, Alison Brie, Plaza plays the assistant of a sleazy-flirty restaurant-chain owner (Alessandro Nivola) with headquarters in a luxe villa in the Italian countryside-her job includes recruiting playmates for him. In writer-director John Patton Ford’s drama Emily the Criminal, Plaza plays a young woman who resorts to credit-card fraud to pay off her student-loan debt. But why take a star-making role when you could play a delusional stalker, a thief with the balls to hold a boxcutter to a man’s throat, a medieval nun perpetually at the end of her fuse? Plaza favors movies that don’t hand over easy answers, and whose comedy-if there’s any at all-is the uneasy kind, a mode of thinking that’s reflected in two movies hitting almost simultaneously this summer. It’s not that she couldn’t be glamourous if she wanted to.
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