‘Long Weekend’ Film Review: Indie Romance Has Terminal Case of the Cutes Gauzy, underwritten love story is hard enough to swallow before it’s compounded with plot twistsAlonso Duralde | March 11, 2021 @ 6:00 AM Last Updated: March 11, 2021 @ 7:40 AM Sony Pictures If you ever wondered what Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy would be like without the insightful writing, sharp directing and intuitive performances, “Long Weekend” will pretty much fill the bill. The film’s aim-for-the-back-fence plot twists might have worked in a movie where audiences were invested in characters that were already grounded in a recognizable reality, but so much of the film’s lurching running time seems trapped in a woozy approximation of countless 1990s a-guy-and-a-girl movies that it’s hard to care about the love story on its face, much less to follow along as it takes wild leaps and bounds.