Chris Barsanti

“Family is a universal thing,” Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal notes in his light-hearted documentary about translating his sitcom for a Russian audience. “But unfortunately, so is show business.” This explains the various producers sitting around with nothing much constructive to say, and critical casting decisions being made by studio executives who don’t seem to know much about comedy, or even television. There isn’t much that can explain the wild dogs wandering around the grounds of what is supposedly the biggest and most important Russian film, which also happens to look like an abandoned factory.

Exporting Raymond is playing now in limited release. You can read the full review at filmcritic.com.