‘Sketch’ Review: Tony Hale Is Terrific in Seth Worley’s Charming Spielbergian Monster Movie

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A woman and a man with their faces and clothes covered in various bright paints stand outside in a green field, a power line tower and various trees in the background.
D'Arcy Carden and Tony Hale in "Sketch." (Courtesy TIFF)

One of the first films that made me fall in love with cinema was Steven Spielberg’s enduring “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” While I’m most certainly not alone in this, that it’s stuck with so many is just more of a testament to its greatness. With its ragtag group of scrappy, resourceful kids navigating the perils of growing up and the somehow equally relatable challenges of caring for a kindly otherworldly visitor that the government is after, it’s a film that soars every time you watch it. 

There’s a good chance that Seth Worley, writer and director of the monster movie “Sketch,” was similarly impacted by Spielberg’s work.

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