Seth Rogen has made a career out of basically playing himself, but in the fish-out-of-water comedy "An American Pickle," streaming on HBO Max, he takes on a more complicated dual role. It's a new twist in a long career, Nathan Weinbender says, and in a film that's often funny but tonally uneven.
Nathan Weinbender is the Film and Music Editor for the Inlander and a film critic on Spokane Public Radio's "Movies 101" heard Friday evenings at 6:30 here on KPBX.