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    Review: Amusing and fitfully insightful, Randall Park's 'Shortcomings' has a few of its own

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Aug 04, 2023 4 minutes
    Justin H. Min and Sherry Cola in "Shortcomings."

    One of the self-owning charms of "Shortcomings," Randall Park's modest, sporadically insightful directing debut, is that it's an Asian American comedy that questions (at least initially) the inherent value of Asian American comedies. It begins at a film-festival screening of a glossy romantic comedy that suggests a ChatGPT rewrite of (starring a very game Stephanie Hsu and Ronny Chieng). The crowd laps it up, but at least one unsmiling audience member, Ben (Justin H. Min), bites his tongue — for now, anyway. Once outside the theater, he starts venting to his girlfriend, Miko (Ally Maki), about the uncritical mind-set of

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