Raiff's film, Cha Cha Real Smooth, is his own creation, with Raiff serving as writer, director, producer, editor, and star. Dakota Johnson's portrayal of Domino adds depth and realism to the story, ...

A story about life, its hardships, and its realities is what Apple TV+'s latest release, Cha Cha Real Smooth, is all about. Directed and written by Cooper Raiff, the film follows Andrew, a 22-year-old ...

Since writer-director Cooper Raiff’s latest indie drama, Cha Cha Real Smooth, dropped on Apple TV+ June 17 it’s sparked quite the discourse. Some see the layered coming of age film — which follows ...

Cooper Raiff’s first feature film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2020, the effort winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature. His follow-up effort, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” took ...

This image is from the official press kit for “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” distributed by Apple TV. It’s an indie tale as old as time: A young guy, feeling lost and confused about his path in life, ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judging by his first two films, nothing intrigues actor-writer-director Cooper Raiff more than enigmatic women. We saw it in his ...

Dir/scr: Cooper Raiff. US. 2022. 107 mins. Writer-director-actor Cooper Raiff’s second feature concerns a directionless young man who discovers that falling in love isn’t the same thing as finding ...

Cha Cha Real Smooth tries so hard to be sincere. The second feature by writer-director-actor Cooper Raiff (after 2020’s Shithouse) is a coming-of-age narrative that doesn’t feature any outward ...

Anyone who moved back in with their parents after college without a clear game plan — or who's been stuck living with them in the same situation for any sort of reason — might relate to Andrew's ...

Cooper Raiff's Cha Cha Real Smooth had to play at the Sundance Film Festival virtually because of the pandemic, so he hasn't heard the applause critics are showering on his bittersweet dramedy. The ...