Shiva Baby, a movie about a floundering young woman who feels walls closing in on her while attends a shiva for a family friend, doesn’t sound like an influential, long-tail comedy that would help launch multiple careers. It barely sounds like a comedy at all, at least not the kind that typically does well on the big screen. Maybe that’s why Emma Seligman’s movie turned into a kind of pandemic-era hit in early 2021; though its April opening coincided with the mass reopening of movie theaters in a post-vaccination world, it was simultaneously released on VOD, and became something of a miniature sensation, perfectly evoking the claustrophobic of staying inside while also offering a cautionary tale about the hell of leaving the house. (It even landed inside of the Top 20 of Decider’s Best Movies of 2021 countdown.) Now it’s turned up on Netflix, where it looks a lot starrier
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