Christopher Guest’s ‘Mascots’: A Tenderly Funny Sorta-Sequel to ‘Best in Show’
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Premiering at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival—and in early October on Netflix—the latest from Guest’s talented comedy improv troupe feels both funny and familiar.
At their best, the films of Christopher Guest are variations of the same desperate optimism, or optimistic desperation, playing on unspeakable anxieties within the hopeful souls onscreen—and between their quiet agonies and our own.
