'Stress Positions' Review - This Satire Will Melt Your Brain

If your movie ever needs a messy central figure around which to build, its hard to think of anyone better and more committed to playing them than John Early. Whether it was in the series Search Party, his recent comedy special Now More Than Ever, or basically anything he has ever done, hes shown a wonderful ability to bring just the right amount of concentrated absurdity to make everything sing. Even as being goofy and unhinged is an underappreciated art that can be too easily dismissed as easy, or even worse, annoying just for the sake of it, when done well, it can really be something special. While such recognition matters little when the work already speaks for itself, that performances with a more comedic sensibility find themselves undervalued every year come awards season is still unfortunate as there is so much good work just waiting for its moment in the sun. Boy does it get it in Early's latest.