An American Pickle Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

1. The Underwhelming Third Act

As compellingly odd as that first hour is, things start to fall off somewhat in the final reel, as the script diverges into more familiar and predictable studio comedy territory.

Of course, Herschel and Ben are inevitably driven apart following a major argument, and there's one especially zany narrative turn which feels like it belongs in a different movie entirely.

But ultimately everything ends exactly as you'd expect, awash in gooey family truisms after every conflict is neatly resolved. It really just feels like Rich ran out of good ideas two-thirds in and basically just leaned back on typical genre tropes to see him through.

These gripes aside, though, there's plenty to like here. Here's what Rogen and co. got right...