2019 | USA, South Korea | NR | 83 min.
This completely charming and utterly unique romantic comedy truly deserves a medal. Not only is it the first scripted film ever shot in the Athletes' Village during the Olympics (2018's Pyeongchang Winter Games), and in startlingly impressive fashion by only a one-man crew (director Jeremy Teicher) at that, it also delivers a fresh and authentic story of two strangers who form a meaningful and unexpected connection. Comedian Nick Kroll (that funny guy you know from everything) plays an amiable volunteer dentist while actual Olympian and actress Alexi Pappas plays a restless cross-country skier who meet cute in the cafeteria. From there the two enjoy a Lost in Translation style connection, while you also enjoy incredible access and insight into the Olympic experience. A true marvel of cinematic inventiveness and scrappiness (it's mind-boggling they were able to so successfully mount this), it's also the incredible chemistry of its leads that propels this one to go for the gold.