LA Times review of Thanks For Sharing saying the movie would have benefited from more P!nk:
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Alecia Moore, a.k.a. Pink, the rocker making an especially engaging acting debut....
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It helps that Neil is tag-teaming it with Dede (Moore). They make a formidable duo; Neil's weakness and Dede's strength balance each other out beautifully. Both actors are completely at ease in their altered states.
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But like too much else in the film, it doesn't go as far as it should. More Moore and more Gad would have been nice. More emotion, more depth, more resolution too. Instead, "Thanks for Sharing" ultimately feels empty. It doesn't share enough.
Work Bitch is still in the top 10 and it's already Thursday. Doesn't seem like a free fall to me. How do the teeny bopper promo singles do? Are they top 10 after 4 days?
And then there's Pink, billed here under her birth name, Alecia Moore, and popping off the screen with a beguiling vulnerability behind the badass shell. She's a vivid performer in her own right, and beyond that she makes a terrific foil for Gad, whose role calls for both focused intensity and the flop-sweat comedy that made him his name in Broadway's Mormon. Moore's deadpan amplifies Gad's exasperation over some of their shared insanity; his first-responder's competence provides a solid frame to contain her panic in a crisis moment. Together they make their shared storyline a whole lot more engaging than it might have been.
