A Simple Favor

At this point, just strap in, because A Simple Favor's plot isn't just twisty: It's so labyrinthine that you expect a minotaur to pop up.

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The consciously campy A Simple Favor is as bright and bracing as an ice cold gin martini with a lemon twist, and just as satisfying.

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"A Simple Favor" is a pretty delicate balancing act.

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Paul Feig's clever, naughty suburban noir turns mommy blogger Anna Kendrick into a one-woman private eye hunting her missing friend.

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Don’t let the unruly plot ruin the fun: Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick make for a crackling onscreen duo

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Mr. Feig handily manages the mood and scene shifts, using regular laughs to brighten the deepening dark. By far his smartest move was to give Ms. Kendrick and Ms. Lively room to create a prickly intimacy for their characters, a bond that’s persuasive enough to push the story through its more forced moments.

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Blake Lively Is the Best Thing About the Silly Simple Favor

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Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively play suburban-mom BFFs, one of whom goes missing, in Paul Feig's cheeky neo-noir.

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Hey, Upper East Siders. Gossip Girl here. And I have the biggest news ever: Spotted spiraling out of control in a new mystery movie: Serena van der Woodsen (a k a Blake Lively).

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A Simple Favor haphazardly vacillates between suburban satire, goofy comedy, and dark, twisted psychological thriller. Which is to say that the film doesn't evince the seamlessness of presentation of its clearest antecedent: David Fincher's "Gone Girl."

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Paul Feig’s cocktail of suburban noir and modern laughs misfires when its thriller elements ramp up

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