John Early’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
John Early has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
Recurring themes

Gifted
2017
Drama · Comedy

The Kids Are All Right
2010
Comedy · Drama

Learning to Drive
2014
Drama · Comedy

Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013
Drama · Comedy

The Confirmation
2016
Drama · Comedy

Private Life
2018
Drama · Comedy

The Intervention
2016
Comedy · Drama

Girl in Progress
2012
Comedy · Drama

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
Dir. David Freyne · With Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner

A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.
Dir. Nisha Ganatra · With Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, Max Casella

David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
Dir. Chris Kelly · With Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford

A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.
Dir. Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers · With Alia Shawkat, John Reynolds, John Early

A young Brooklyn couple head upstate to disconnect from their phones and reconnect with themselves. Cut off from their devices, they miss the news that the planet is under attack.
Dir. Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson · With Sunita Mani, John Reynolds, Ben Sinclair

Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
Dir. Miguel Arteta · With Salma Hayek Pinault, John Lithgow, Connie Britton