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A review of Jerrod Carmichael's directorial debut, On the Count of Three, in which he stars with Christopher Abbott.

"On the Count of Three" is marketed as a "darkly comic" movie. Well, there's dark comedy and there's darker comedy, and then there's comedy like this -- so dark that you wonder if the two words can realistically co-exist in one sentence.

Jerrod Carmichael’s directing debut is a buddy comedy about a suicide pact.

Of all the difficult topics that you’d rarely find in the context of comedy, suicide is at or near the top of the list. It’s nearly impossible to

“On the Count of Three” is marketed as a “darkly comic” movie. Well, there's dark comedy and there’s darker comedy, and then there's comedy like this — so dark that you wonder if the two words can realistically co-exist in one sentence.

Bella Hadid has officially signed on for a recurring role in the upcoming third season of Hulu's acclaimed comedy series Ramy.

Details about her role are being kept under wraps

Content warning: suicide. In his directorial debut “On the Count of Three,” which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Jerrod Carmichael shows a rare prowess for balancing strikingly different tones. Though “On the Count of Three” has echoes of older films, such as “Thelma & Louise” or “Harold and Maude,” Carmichael’s film uniquely finds a hilarious comic undercurrent in the sense of all-pervading desolation felt by its characters. We are first introduced to Carmichae...

15 Standouts From the 2021 (Virtual) Sundance Film Festival From Tweet Together Together The Sundance Film Festival is typically the industrys annual coronation of indie sensations and once and future awards darlings. Intrepid filmgoers make the pilgrimage to snowy Park City, Utah, where they wait in long lines to catch a movie that could either be the next big thing or a Redbox exclusive in seven months.  Sundance carried on in 2021 despite the pandemic thanks to a ma...

But it’s what the series does with that premise that stands out. Youssef and his co-creators Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch bring a freshness to it that we haven’t seen before, which sets the series apart from anything else around. Ramy lives in northern New Jersey with his parents Maysa and Farouk (Hiam Abbass and Amr Waked) and his younger sister Dena (May Calamawy),who couldn’t be less like the cliché of the dutiful Muslim daughter. It’s less a series about a first generation American M...