Weekend Movie Forecast: Up or Drag Me to Hell

What Goes Up stars Steve Coogan as "a morally challenged New York reporter" assigned to a small American town to cover the hoopla surrounding the first teacher in space on the doomed 1986 Challenger mission. Along the way, he "learns life lessons" from a group of dysfunctional students, like Hilary Duff. Still reading? Time Out's David Fear has written one of many pans: "Perhaps it’s best to talk about what should go down in Jonathan Glatzer’s black comedy... There’s the film’s extreme copycatting of a certain generic, Sundance-approved template—the one that perpetuates the notion that quirky characters plus slightly left-of-center jokes somehow equals deep insight into the human condition. It doesn’t, alas, and if What Goes Up is what we can expect in the post-Juno era of alt-dramedy programming, then burn, Indiewood, burn!"