Review: Judd Apatow's 'The King of Staten Island,' starring Pete Davidson, can be raw, sometimes startling, but before and after everything else the film is hilarious, and constitutes a cockeyed pantheon of comic performances, writes Joe Morgenstern
Let your mind drift back through the mists of time to the pre-pandemic pleasures of going out to see a terrific new movie. Most theaters are still closed, of course, but a quintessential multiplex attraction—a Judd Apatow comedy—has come to the home screen.
“The King of Staten Island,” streaming on demand, stars the Saturday Night Live prodigy Pete Davidson. This quasi-biographical production, directed by Mr. Apatow from a script he wrote with Mr. Davidson and Dave Sirus, creates a fictional world from the famously turbulent material of the star’s life. The content can be raw, sometimes startling, but before and after...
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