Ingrid Goes West is equal parts scathing social satire, horror movie, and character portrait. It's self-aware enough to include a Single White Female joke, but it's not the kind of jokey movie that winks at itself.
Aubrey Plaza is brilliant in "Ingrid goes West," Matt Spicer's smart, satirical and sometimes scathing takedown of the vapidity social media sometimes injects into life.
Now 33, Plaza can still get away with playing an ingenue (that's what Ingrid is, a toxic ingenue). She can do comedy. She can do drama. She's best of all, as here, at combining both.
This darkly comic satire is beautifully twisted and loads of fun but, at its heart, is an important look at how we now interact with each other and how we live day to day.
If there's any recent film that has dealt with our craze for social media in the most intelligent and assured of ways, it would be Matt Spicer's "Ingrid Goes West."
