Time loop films like Groundhog Day or Palm Springs typically have a requisite section of the looper having some fun , but in One More Shot , the Australian Y2K-set comedy, Minnie (Emily Browning) mostly just self-destructs. Though the film's loop is an intimate party between best friends and former lovers, everything is pretty depressing, even the so-called jokes . Time-traveling tequila (well, really mezcal, as everyone points out, because there's a worm in the bottle) sounds like a fun idea, but the film is really short on doling it out.

Good thing Browning is such an endlessly charming performer. She's more or less the only person elevating the proceedings, which overall feels like a sanctimonious anti-alcohol campaign. Part of the reason Bill Murray's foray into inadve

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