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Girl Walks Into a Bar: Film Review

"Entourage's" Carla Guigo and Emmanuelle Chriqui star in Sebastian Gutierrez's microscopic budgeted comedy which raises the bar for web-original content.

AUSTIN -- (Spotlight Premieres) The third of Sebastian Gutierrez's gynocentric ensemble comedies whose high-profile casts belie microscopic budgets, Girl Walks Into a Bar shows the writer/director solidifying a behind-the-camera M.O. that could earn him a cult following. Made specifically for YouTube and premiering there simultaneously with its SXSW debut, the picture raises the bar for web-original content -- plenty of online shorts match or exceed its yuk-factor, but Girl offers a combination of production value and sustained narrative rarely if ever deployed for free streaming.