Many film critics say the first original feature film released by HBO Max 'leaves a sour taste' with its muddled plot and lack of focus.
last century," adding that the film is"too contrived to be convincing and too formulaic to be funny."
"If this movie were to just be a parody of the absurdity of modern life from the perspective of a character from the past, it would have been better," she wrote."The problems for 'An American Pickle' begin when it stops being just a satire of everything hipster, to try to want to say something else.
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