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Cha Cha Real Smooth

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Comedy · Drama · Romance · 2022

Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.

Movie details

Cha Cha Real Smooth

“Falling in love is easy. Growing up is hard.”

2022 Comedy · Drama · Romance 1h 48m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.3 / 10

30.9K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

85 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

69 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Cha Cha Real Smooth?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Cooper Raiff

Written by

Cooper Raiff

Cooper Raiff

Cooper Raiff

Andrew

Dakota Johnson

Dakota Johnson

Domino

Evan Assante

Evan Assante

David

Vanessa Burghardt

Vanessa Burghardt

Lola

Leslie Mann

Leslie Mann

Lisa

Brad Garrett

Brad Garrett

Greg

Raúl Castillo

Raúl Castillo

Joseph

Court is in session

Put Cha Cha Real Smooth on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.