Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

If you never saw the Viceland show, Nirvanna the Band the Show was about two Toronto friends, Matt and Jay, endlessly scheming to book a gig at a bar called the Rivoli and never quite managing it, often filmed guerrilla-style with real strangers who had no idea they were in a bit. The movie keeps that chaotic hidden-camera energy and bolts a time-travel plot onto it, which sounds like too much and mostly isn’t.

It’s silly, sweet, and committed to the joke in a way that’s genuinely disarming. Your mileage depends entirely on your tolerance for two grown men treating a Rivoli booking like a moon landing. I found it hard to resist. It’s the rare comedy that feels like it was made by actual friends, because it was.