while Silva's direction, a impeccably cast ensemble of benign bros and a tone that impressively never goes full-tilt batshit all contribute to the quality, you have Jason Mitchell to thank for making this work so damned well
not an especially pointed commentary about race or anything else, this lively, unpleasant seriocomedy nonetheless does very well at capturing the queasiness of being alone and uneasy at a party you immediately know you won't fit into
like paranoid Tyler himself, we go to that worst-case scenario and Silva has a blast emphasizing every bit of microaggressive whiteness on display, from their constant flow of spiked Irish coffees to a hit parade of whiny R.E.M. songs