'A Kid Like Jake' Doesn't Have Enough Jake
A film about rich parents using their child's gender expression to get him into preschool doesn't spend enough time getting to know Jake or enough time looking closely at his parents.
Some movies are meant to be genre-nonconforming, and we'd all be a lot happier if they were able to exist like that. But we live in a genre-binary society, where films need easy loglines. is about wealthy, white New York parents who try to leverage their four-year-old son's gender experimentation in order to land him a scholarship to an elite private preschool. It has the soul of a sharp class satire, and occasionally flirts in that direction. Yet it must present
