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Roberts has no trouble playing broad; it’s the movie that feels cautious about how much of a caricature it feels comfortable drawing. Writer-director Liz W. Garcia has previously specialized in relatively grounded indie character studies like The Lifeguard and One Percent More Humid; maybe those experiences nagged at her during the making of this movie, urging her not to turn Rex into a cartoon. Instead, she becomes several contradictory cartoons at once.