FILM: Late Night

Mindy Kaling's Late Night is not only really funny, it's a timely skewering of the notoriously white male bastion of the comedy writer's room. Emma Thompson is pitch perfect as a 20-year veteran award winning late night comedy show host who is whip smart and with impeccable standards, but who is also jaded, has lost her edge, and has been coasting a bit on her reputation. When cancellation threatens, an endearingly over-earnest and forthright Mindy Kaling enters to set the late night world right by turning it upside-down. Like a great late night show, there's great comedy here, underpinned by some raw honesty and insight into current affairs. Who knew a writer's room could be so dramatic and so funny?