Cha Cha Real Smooth

Cooper Raiff follows up his indie hit S#!%house (2020) with another film fest crowd-pleaser starring himself. This time, Raiff plays a 22-year-old who moves back in with his New Jersey family and fends off the post-college malaise by working as a party starter for his little brother's classmates' bar and bat mitzvahs. At these parties, the charming people-pleaser befriends a local mom (an exceptional Dakota Johnson) and her autistic daughter (newcomer Vanessa Burghardt, who is herself on the spectrum). It's a poignant maturation rom-com that, like 2019's Booksmart, proves that Millennials can make funny and insightful coming-of-age comedies despite all that pesky kindness, inclusion, and sincerity.