Good Fortune

★★½

M. 97 minutes

Aziz Ansari has the voice of a cartoon duck, big eyes equally well-suited to mournfulness and freaking out, and a persona that blends self-effacement and entitlement in the manner of vintage Adam Sandler, without matching Sandler’s ruthless determination to please the public.

In sitcoms he’s winning enough, but being pleasant isn’t enough to make you a movie star. Not that comedians get to be movie stars anyway in today’s Hollywood: even Sandler’s recent vehicles have mostly been relegated to Netflix.

Good Fortune , which Ansari wrote, directed and produced, is a mildly subversive fable about the yearning for big-time success – and also the kind of medium-budget comedy that used to be common in cinemas, but nowadays only exists because someone like Ansa

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