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1 month ago | 
collider.com | Bob Byington |Jake Hodges
There's a wide spectrum of comedy in the world of movies and television, with subtle observational comedy juxtaposed with absurd slapstick humor. Either way, the aim of the comedic game is to elicit as many laughs as possible, with an ever-growing success rate in this field hailing from the precise mixture of both bleak reality and laughter.
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May 2, 2024 | 
lightscameraaustin.net | Byron Brown |David Ward |Bob Byington |Carmen Hilbert
Interview:Lars Nilsen,Lead Film Programmer,Jazmyne Moreno,Associate Programmer,Austin Film Society,May 2024 Programming The Austin Film Society's May 2024 programming is highlighted by two series: Oscar Micheaux, celebrating the films of the pioneer Black filmmaker, and Noir Canon, featuring the classics Ace in the Hole, Clash by Night, Gilda, and Pickup on South Street.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
micropsiacine.com | Bob Byington |Lousy Carter |Diego Lerer |de Bob Byington
por Diego Lerer - cine, Críticas, Festivales Un profesor universitario descubre que le quedan seis meses de vida y se dispone a arruinar su relación con todo el mundo en esta comedia ácida del director de «Infinity Baby». En BAFICI. A «Lousy» le empezaron a decir así desde chico. Entonces, el apodo –traducible como «horrible» o «asqueroso»– no lo molestaba y quedó. Hoy en día es su nombre. De hecho, lo llaman así sus alumnos, sus colegas, sus familiares y sus doctores.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Bob Byington |Luke Gorham
“You are a baby man.” Less an insult than an observation, these words spoken to Lousy Carter (David Krumholtz) by his ex Candela (Olivia Thirlby) roughly function as both synopsis and thesis for Bob Byington’s latest feature. In fact, they’re fairly reflective of the director’s project writ large, with most of his mumblecore-adjacent films comprising a post-Confederacy of Dunces survey of bumbling but literate men firmly in an arrested development of some sort.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
punchdrunkcritics.com | Cortland Jacoby |Bob Byington
David Krumholtz is known for his past career. 10 Things I Hate About You, Numb3rs, The Santa Clause, chances are the thing you remember him from was made at least ten years ago. And while that’s okay, Krumholtz has taken a bunch of supporting and guest-starring roles over the years to keep sharp. That hustle proved beneficial when the 45-year-old popped up in last year’s Oppenheimer, playing the titular character’s best friend and colleague.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
crypticrock.com | Bob Byington |Cara McWilliam |Nina Mende |Jeannie Blue
When faced with their imminent demise, most people would probably be pretty upset. However, when Lousy Carter learns that he is terminally ill, his reaction is rather more pragmatic and blasé. As a professor of literature, he teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby to students who get their facts from Wikipedia and show little interest. He is divorced, has a difficult relationship with his mother and is estranged from his sister.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Bob Byington
A college professor gets a grim diagnosis in this comedy from Bob Byington. Lousy CarterDirected by Bob Byington ComedyNot Rated1h 20mFind TicketsWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Death be not tragic in "Lousy Carter," a repellently watchable curiosity from the Austin cult filmmaker Bob Byington.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
austinchronicle.com | Richard Whittaker |Bob Byington |Nick Offerman |Me's adventures
Nobody is as invested in miserable bastards as Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington. He is the bard of the gleeful underachiever. Those that do not fail but instead succeed in their aggressive pursuit of failure. Losers who embrace their self-destruction as a badge of honor in a worthless world.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
maddwolf.com | Bob Byington
Lousy Carterby George Wolf“Lousy” Carter (a terrific David Krumholtz) is a college professor, currently teaching a grad level seminar on The Great Gatsby. One book? Even his “best friend” and colleague Kaminsky (Martin Starr) is nonplussed. “Maybe you should teach a pamphlet,” he says with the deadest of pans, underscoring the entire tone of writer/director Bob Byington’s sardonic slice of life and death.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
battleshippretension.com | Bob Byington
Writer/director Bob Byington has carved out an enviable, if regrettably low-profile, place in the film industry, regularly turning out expertly-tuned comedies with stellar casts that rarely get wide enough distribution to be seen by many. His latest film, Lousy Carter, is a familiar meditation on the purpose and absurdity of life through the lens of a few verbose narcissists, and no more the worse for wear.
