{"id":151783,"date":"2021-01-11T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-if-not-now-when-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2021-01-11T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:08:00","slug":"watch-if-not-now-when-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-if-not-now-when-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch If Not Now, When? with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a220fa7da3e3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a220fa7da3e3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-if-not-now-when-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_If_Not_Now_When_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch If Not Now, When? Online&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-if-not-now-when-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Monica_Castillo\" >Monica Castillo<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-if-not-now-when-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#If_Not_Now_When_2021\" >If Not Now, When? (2021)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_If_Not_Now_When_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch If Not Now, When? Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/if-not-now-when-movie-review-2021\/if-not-now-when-movie-review-2021.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>Four friends in high school seem inseparable. They stick together through a failed over-the-top prom invitation and in a moment of crisis when one of them goes into labor and becomes a single mom just before college. But over the years, life takes its course. Tyra (Meagan Good) managed to graduate at the top of her class and her daughter, Jillian (Lexi Underwood) is already 15 years old. However, a car accident has led Tyra to an opioid addiction, and her friends rally to get her help. But they too are facing their own struggles. Patrice (Tamara LaSeon Bass) works in healthcare and is dating a doctor, however she\u2019s reluctant to continue with a relationship that sees kids in her future. Deidre (Meagan Holder), is a divorced dancer whose career has taken unexpected turns after she became a divorced mother. Now, her ex-husband wants a second chance. Suzanne (Mekia Cox) looks like she has it all, but in reality, she\u2019s hiding the pain of a cheating husband, an affair of her own, and an upcoming baby she\u2019s not sure she wants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>All of this backstory sets the stage for an understated story about enduring friendships in \u201cIf Not Now, When?\u201d The friends clash, they make up. They experience\u00a0highs and lows in their romantic relationships. Unfortunately, the drama never comes to life. It\u2019s on a strange middle ground where there\u2019s no surprises even when there are life-changing revelations. There\u2019s a lack of connection even when the friends have supposedly let bygones be bygones. Between its amateurish direction, pedestrian cinematography, and overly\u00a0plotted <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>, the narrative and visuals don\u2019t coalesce into a story that feels restorative, cathartic or even joyful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Not Now, When?\u201d is the feature directorial debut of two of its stars, LeSeon Bass and Good. (LeSeon Bass also holds the writing credit.) And while their intention to bring a well-meaning story about Black women and friendships to the screen is admirable, there\u2019s just something missing in the final result. The movie borrows a fair amount from \u201cWaiting to Exhale,\u201d which also follows four Black career women, their friendships and their romantic lives, as well as other films about a group of women who don\u2019t always get along but love each other anyway. Central to each of these <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> is that tension within strained friendships that come together by the end. The friendships in \u201cIf Not Now, When?\u201d are so strained that even the reconciliations don&#8217;t feel all that much more different from when we first meet them on the outs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s strange too that Tyra, Good\u2019s character, is essentially isolated from the others for long periods of time while in rehab. Her road to recovery has the look and feel of a made-for-TV movie about opioid addiction\u2014it&#8217;s fairly surface level without getting into too much detail. It\u2019s as if it made for a convenient source of conflict, enough to build out around without digging into it. You expect her to rejoin the group by the film&#8217;s end, but she misses the healing process the other three go through. It doesn\u2019t feel like she\u2019s back to being part of the group even when they\u2019re celebrating together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>For much of &#8220;If\u00a0Not Now, When?&#8221;,\u00a0I couldn\u2019t find why it wasn\u2019t working for me. It took a second watch before I made peace with the narrative\u2019s convoluted structure. It was one of the film\u2019s most emotional scenes, when Suzanne finally tells Deidre her problems, that revealed why the visual style was even more alienating. In this emotional moment, the first few shots of the women sitting down feature more of the room to their side than each other. Suzanne sits in front of a door with a large window that quite literally steals her spotlight. It creates an imbalance between the two as Deidre looks evenly lit, almost glowing in that moment. The camera finally closes in on their faces and expressions during their conversation, but then distractingly moves along a dolly track, which adds a lot more movement and distraction to a scene that needed to let the actors shine. I\u2019m not sure if this was cinematographer Craig Dean Devine\u2019s call or a misstep from the movie\u2019s first-time directors, but there are many of these small distractions throughout the film that kept leading my attention away from the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although \u201cIf Not Now, When?\u201d may not be the smoothest movie, its core cast\u2014Good, LeSeon Bass, Holder and Cox\u2014is fun to watch. Cox is excellent at playing prim and tightlipped until she reaches her breaking point. Her restraint as Suzanne in those scenes is matched by the fight-or-flight spirit of LeSeon Bass\u2019 character, Patrice. She creates a tough exterior much like Suzanne and Tyra\u2019s, all of whom as we learn, develop those shields to protect themselves from being too vulnerable. Holder\u2019s Deirdre is the kindhearted one who holds them together. Their dynamics don\u2019t always work out, but they are the highlight of the movie, which is fittingly more about these four women than everything else going on in their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Now available in theaters, on demand, and on digital.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Monica Castillo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/monica-castillo\/featured_Monica-9254.jpg\" title=\"Monica Castillo\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Monica_Castillo\"><\/span>Monica Castillo<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Monica Castillo is a freelance writer and University of Southern California Annenberg graduate film critic fellow. Although she originally went to Boston University for biochemistry and molecular biology before landing in the sociology department, she went on to review films for The Boston Phoenix, WBUR, Dig Boston, The Boston Globe, and co-hosted the podcast \u201cCinema Fix.\u201d\u00a0<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"If Not Now, When? movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/if-not-now-when-2021\/large_k3kVMG4Ygh8G6NNGeqS7ijaEVFE.jpg\" title=\"If Not Now, When? movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"If_Not_Now_When_2021\"><\/span> If Not Now, When? 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