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‘One of Them Days’ Review: Keke Palmer and SZA in a Fast-Talking Day-in-the-Life-of-the-Hood Comedy Made With a ’90s Verve
The two have nine hours to get the rent money in a fast-talking day-in-the-life-of-the-hood comedy that's really a skewed portrait of a community.
“ One of Them Days,” starring Keke Palmer and SZA as fast-talking, flat-broke Los Angeles roommates who have nine hours to come up with the rent money, is a winning throwback to the kind of day-in-the-hood comedy they used to make in the ’90s — movies like “Friday” (1995) and “The Players Club” (1998), which squeezed just enough texture in between the laughs to qualify as crowd-pleasing slices of life. These movies, usually produced by New Line, were the descendants of “House Party” and Spike Lee (notably the exuberant opening 45 minutes of “Do the Right Thing”), though they were also a counterreaction to the dramas of inner-city violence that had dominated commercial Black cinema during the first half of the ’90s. There’s a con artist, played with changeup cleverness by Lil Rel Howry, who buys the Air Jordans, and there’s a hilariously merciless drone-voiced gangster, King Lolo (Amin Joseph), who demonstrates that total of lack of empathy is already a parody of itself.
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