Screening at Tribeca: James Sweeney’s ‘Twinless’

The indignities of grief take center stage in James Sweeney’s touching, hilarious and eventually enthralling Twinless. The movie opens with a character in mourning, the short-tempered Roman (Dylan O’Brien), having to endure numerous strangers telling him how much he reminds them of his late twin brother Rocky, who dies in a car accident off-screen. It would be hard for most people to imagine losing such a close reflection of oneself, and it’s just as difficult for Roman to put into words how shattered it leaves him (that is...