‘Roommates’ Review: Besties Turn Testy in an Uneven College Comedy With Two Terrific Leads
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
3/25
Freshness
25/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
9/15
Depth
5/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
There’s a complicated, bittersweet study of female friendship fighting to free itself from the glib, shiny, “Saturday Night Live”-adjacent comic veneer of “Roommates,” and when it shows through, in enticing fits and starts, it even approaches wisdom. Elsewhere, however, this Netflix original from up-and-coming Canadian filmmaker Chandler Levack disappointingly flattens the moral and emotional zigz

