892 features powerful performances from its ensemble, especially John Boyega and Nicole Beharie. It slows in act 2 after we understand where the sympathies lie and what sort of story we’re being told, but its heart was in the right place throughout. Polished cinematography. Features a solid score from Michael Abels. A story well worth telling and does justice to Brian Brown-Easley

Really enjoyed this funny and very cringy mother and son dramedy. Has the humor you might expect from Eisenberg’s script. I wish I’d seen it in a theater to hear the jokes land cause it had me chuckling in spite of my isolation. 

Character drives the story as we’re figuring out what to make of these self-absorbed people and aren’t instructed not to like them. We’re instead challenged to discover their redeemable qualities, and in this exercise I absolutely saw myself in them by the end. A self-effacing experience for me.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.