Long-Buried Secrets from the past resurface in alex winter’s Adultthood, A Suburban Noir Comedy That Takes the Concept of Skeletons in the Closet Literally to Very Mixed Results. When Kaya Scodelario) and Noah (Josh Gad) Return to their Childhood Home to Take of their Mother, they find more than they bargained for the form of a decaying body hydde in the Walls of the Basement.
They identify the corps as that of their missing neighbor patty, who disappeared when they were children in the Early 90s. The Town Blamed Her then-Husband and the Family Scattered. Meg and noah reflect on all of this in one of the Movie’s Weirdly Sweet Moment Adultthood is Still Ramping Up. But as the film attempts to hit it stride, it beComes a tonal mess in just about every Way.
Adultthood Can’t Quite Hit The Right Tone
Instead of Alerting the Police and Potentially Incrimating Their Ailing Mother, Noah and Meg Decide to Hide The Body Thermves, Leading to A Game of BlackMmail and Murder is Simply Confounding. As the bodies pile up and the situation becomes increasingly untenable, Adultthood‘s characters make increasingly baffling deciss that are underscored by the fact that gad and scodelario feeds they’re in two Entirery Different Movies.
Both Are Great Performers, but scodelario is playing the material straight and, against gad’s chomedic relief, there’s an Awkward Tension Their performances that never quite eve. It doesn’t help that noah and meg anen’tin entirely believable as siblings. There’s no deeper connection felt after their initial reunion, and lingering resentments from over the years of mentioned and then over in favor of the full.
Adultthood Could’ve been a lot more efficient if it is lingered on the emotional impact of the situation. It feels like the film wants to do, but Winter’s script offeten insists on adding levity qat only confuses the tone and never quite lands. The funniest person in the film is Barry Breakout Anthony Corrigan As Meg and Noah’s Sketchy Cousin. He’s Brought in to Help Scare Billie Lourd’s BlackMmail, and a late scene in the movie Featuring Swords, A Crossbow, and Two Katanas is a Highlight.
These sets pieces will little to carry the film, though, and Adultthood Ultimate SEEMS to Find itelf Lost in the Middle of Two Oppsing Forces, Striving for Comedy As It Remains Grounded in Its Suburban Noir Construct. It ends up Making for a movie that is not all that funny or emotional.
Adultthood Strives to hit a Certain Manic Energy Fitting for the escalating situations in the film, but it never reaches a full-on delirium that would suit utlandish premise, in its best moments. Instead, the pacing of Adultthood Is Rather Staid, Event As Noah and Meg Find Themselves in Deeper and Deper Trouble With Evel-Advised Decision. By the time the movie tourins off autopilot, it’s far too land, and the ending lands with the dull of a long-rotted body wrapped in an Old rug.
Adultthood Premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. The film will be reletaned in theater on September 19.
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September 19, 2025
- Directory
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Alex Winter
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Michael Mb Galvin
- Producers
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Lisa Wolofsky, Russell Hollander, Scott Kroopf, HS Naji, Michael Cho, Tim Lee
