
★☆☆☆☆
Toni Collette, David Duchovny and Anna Faris star in The Estate, Sky Cinema’s new comedy, but we argue you can hardly call it such. Read our review.I was supposed to watch The Estate in October. It was included in the programme for The London Film Festival and with a stacked cast – Toni Collette, Anna Faris, Rosemarie DeWitt, David Duchovny – it was on my watchlist. A day or two before the scheduled press screening for the film, it was pulled from the press schedule and no new screening was organised, meaning you could only see the film if you had a ticket to a screening. It was strange and had certainly never happened to me before, so when a screener came available via Sky Cinema, I was ecstatic I could finally watch it. Now, only moments after the credits began to roll on The Estate, I long for the hope and optimism I held mere days ago. The film, written and directed by Dean Craig, is awful. It’s very clearly supposed to be a comedy, but it’s just not funny at all. Those closest to me know that I am not above the occasional dick joke, but 90 minutes of jokes about penises, incest and Kathleen Turner dying is a bit much, even for me.

Credit: Sky

Credit: Sky
The Estate is streaming on Sky Cinema 13 January.