150 Word Review: 'Splitsville' (2025)
Love is a battlefield
Is this one of my favorite movies of the year? Yes. Splitsville is a spittake funny sex comedy about infidelity and co-dependence that is consistently unpredictable and inappropriate.
When middle-aged doofus Carey is dumped by his wife during a road trip, his immediate reaction is to jump out of the car and run—for miles—to the house of his childhood best friend and his wife, who, later that night, confess that their marriage is open. Then things get messy. There are betrayals and slap fights. LOL.
Co-written and starring Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, both marvelously deadpan, and directed by Covino, Spitsville isn’t a run-of-the-mill sitcom about millennial squishes. No, no. It’s blessed with a gonzo sense of humor and compassion for all the emotionally sloppy characters. This is Dakota Johnson at her most likable as a woman torn between two impulsive bros. People are broken; thankfully, love is glue.
I genuinely think Johnson is giving one of the all-time great straight woman performances here, a Margaret Dumont to everyone else's Marx Brothers.