I'm not stupid, you're stupid, stupid. (Image via A24) C'mon! C'mon! from writer-director Mike Mills represents his fourth intensely interesting, uncompromisingly independent feature — after Thumbsucker (2005), Beginners (2010) and 20th Century Women (2016) — as well as being that rarest of films, a small, intellectually interested and interesting, emotional movie about what bonds us as human beings.
Joaquin Phoenix and Gaby Hoffmann are remarkably dialed in within this gentle, poetic story of a journalist, Johnny (Phoenix), who hears from his semi-estranged sister, Viv (Hoffmann), that she needs to be with her fully estranged husband (Scoot McNairy) while he battles addiction, and would like for Johnny to watch her nine-year-old, Jesse