'Voicemails for Isabelle' Review: Zoey Deutch Elevates a Rom-Com With a Creepy Premise

She has a tendency to be the best — and usually the funniest — thing in whatever movie she's in, even if whatever movie isn't very good (and is inevitably made better by her performance).

Leah McKendrick writes and directs this high-concept romantic comedy that essentially requires its star to use her considerable talents to compensate for some core creepiness and enough heavy-handed self-awareness to make us feel like a cat being stroked backward.

Nick Robinson plays the romantic interest who apparently isn't aware that he's being a total creep.