There's been a lot of negativity around this movie but it's honestly a joy. Using the British-honed style of faux documentary filmmaking, it follows a girl band Glass Heart as they work on their album at the famous Rockfield Studios in England. Their manager Mark (Nick Helm) is struggling to get Kelly (Shawkat),a pretentious and uppity American and the songwriter of the band, to crack on so they can get recording, the label breathing down his neck. Meanwhile, the band is flailing in all directions -- until the brilliant and flamboyant studio guitarist Pat (Gonzalez) arrives. I wonder if Americans will get this style of filmmaking, and that might be part of the problem, but if this had been a show like Fleabag instead of a movie, I think it would have won countless awards and would have made it majestically across the pond.

Alia Shawkat is great at being disgusting here, and is a fantastic stick in the mud for Nick Helm, also turning in a fantastic performance. Chanel Cresswell is the balance for all, a believable ballast for the band. Of course, Eiza Gonzalez takes the movie away, and is addictive watching for the second half, every little eye movement and hair flick perfectly engineered for this character, moved only by Nick's grounded wife, a brilliant cameo by Dolly Wells.

This is a great film, and much better than half the movies being touted as masterpieces this season. And it's a feminist piece, no gross sex scenes, breasts out, none of that. Just a properly made story and properly thought out acting.

Cause I was like damn why is everyone (almost) being quite the bellam , lol, but it was really funny and under all the weird angst or self-righteous indignation there was a soft humanistic charm to it that connected us the viewing audience to these character in this very exclusive situation reserved for a limited fraternity but once we get past the initial shock of rockstardom , we see real people unfold and real situations sort of take their place in a sort of universal platform, I really enjoyed this! And I hope to see more of this dudes' stuff I see he has a lot of stuff , I will keep an eye out, recommend! Great job!

I mean seriously, thanks to amazon, spotify, apple etc., youre either a major label owned ad click data farming asset 1% billionaire or 99% under $20 bucks (if lucky) a year in streaming royalties part time hobbyist wannabe dreamer delusional sucker taking part in the total decimation of the indie creative arts. The end.