‘The Lovebirds’ Review: Dir. Michael Showalter (2020)

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Kumail Nanjiani teams with Issa Rae and re-teams with his The Big Sick director for a madcap black comedy, now streaming on a Netflix near you.The Lovebirds is one of the many cinematic casualties of the coronavirus pandemic.

The film was set for a cinema release last month, but things being as they are, Paramount decided to sell the film to Netflix.

From seeing the film itself, Netflix seems a good home for it, as it is not too far away from the types of comedies the streamer has been producing themselves, and that’s not necessarily a complimentThe plot follows Jibran (Nanjiani) and Leilani (Rae), a couple on the brink of a break-up after seeing each other for four years.