'Wicked, winning and bruisingly comic — Beanie Feldstein is all that and more.' Peter Travers gushes over the new comedy 'How to Build a Girl'
, a fictional pop-rock rag that’s looking for “hip young gunslingers.” Johanna hardly fits the bill, and she submits a review of thetakes on Johanna for the hell of it, even sending the office “jailbait” to Dublin to interview balladeer John Kite, sweetly and sharply played by Alfie Allen, a.k.a. Theon Greyjoy onWatching Kite in front of a cheering audience, Johanna falls instantly in love with the singer and with rock & roll. The resulting puff piece is jeered back at the magazine.
And so begins the transformation of Johanna into Dolly Wilde, the evil queen of music journalism whose takedowns make her something of a celebrity. On Paul Simon: “He looks like a big toe with a face drawn on it.” And: “Eddie Vedder should do another ripoff of Kurt Cobain and just kill himself.” There are scrappy possibilities in the atmospherics of 1990’s British rock-reporting run by posh snobs who measure their worth in snark.
It’s funny — as is a lot of this eager-to-please, all-over-the-place movie — thanks to the dry snap of Moran’s dialogue and Feldstein’s exhilarating performance. Up next as Monica Lewinsky in an FX series about the Clinton impeachment, you get the feeling this 26-year-old star can do anything. When shows up as a publishing guru who offers Johanna the chance to write a regular column about her self-realization, there’s no need.Popular on Rolling Stone
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