‘Oh, Hi!’ Review: A Terrific Cast Led by Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman Can Barely Keep a Modern-Day ‘Misery’ Afloat

variety.com:

Tomris Laffly For a movie billed as a relationship comedy — or rather, a “situationship” comedy, as modern-day dating arrangements go — writer-director Sophie Brooks’ “Oh, Hi!” starts off rather ominously, with the movie spoiling its own shift in tone that would kick in later.

Eerie music plays as we take in the deeply concerned face and big green eyes of Iris, played by Molly Gordon in a boundless and bouncily unhinged performance.

She confesses that she’s done something bad to someone we don’t yet see. It’s an intriguing setup, one that sufficiently grabs the attention as Brooks turns the clock back to some 30 hours earlier in her increasingly exhausting dark comedy, where complex and imperfect people make back-to-back bad decisions and dating is reliably hard for young people navigating apps and bars full of selfish weirdos.

In this elongated flashback, we follow Iris and her boyfriend Isaac (an enchanting Logan Lerman) as they happily drive through picturesque winding roads of New York State, blissfully singing Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers’ “Islands in the Stream.” Gorgeous bodies of water in spring time, plenty of sunshine, cinematic-looking red barns and of course farm stands that sell in-season strawberries.