In Jessie Eisenberg's directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, nearly everyone's a narcissist. Anyone who isn’t (there are a few) has a hard time being around those people. In the Katz family (our protagonists), the narcissist hierarchy goes like this: son Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), mom Evelyn (Julianne Moore), and dad Roger (Jay O. Sanders). They’re so emotionally removed from each other — living in their own impenetrable worlds — that they don’t even see how dysfunctional their family is.
Ugh, A24. It’s amazing that it’s taken him this long to direct. And of course I’ll watch it, even though it sounds painfully cringey.