Delight is hard to come by at the movies these days, and most of us will take any little scrap we can get. Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut—he also wrote the film and stars in it—may be a movie made up of scraps, but plenty of them throw off sparks of joy. Like One of Them Days , a surprise hit earlier this year, Good Fortune has the cojones to confront one of the major issues of the day: that too many people are working too hard for too little money, while the billionaires at the top sit back and watch the dollars roll in, with no regard for anyone but themselves. The movie's tone counts for a lot: it's silly and funny, and you never feel you're trapped in a civics lecture. Good Fortune is amiable, but it also has some bite.

Ansari stars as Arj, an underemployed

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