Twinless

I could toss out thematic buzzwords like "it's about loneliness and connection," and it's not even that those words don't apply—it's just that writer/director James Sweeney's movie is so gotdam fun that I hesitate to muddy the waters. It's the tale of two men who meet in a bereavement support group for people who have lost twin siblings: Roman (Dylan O'Brien), a straight guy hanging around in Portland to settle his late brother's affairs; and Dennis (Sweeney), a gay man with plenty of issues of his own. Both central performances are terrific, with O'Brien pulling off the trickier task of capturing a guy who's a little bit dumb, a lot angry and still understandably sympathetic, while Sweeney evokes something more pathetic but never ridiculous. Mostly, though, it's smartly written

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