This is truly one of the warmest and least sentimental things I’ve seen in years. Director Tom McCarthy (aka the dishonest reporter and worst charcter in The Wire’s history) has attacked what could have been cultural voyeurism at its worst and made something—about love and bureaucracy and Fela Kuti and death and New York—so excellent. So this poster, which I suppose I’d never paid attention to before, is troubling.

Everyone is smiling. At the risk of SPOILER ALERTing your life, this is not quite a smiling movie. And the main image of Richard Jenkins (as indispensable an American character actor as J.T. Walsh or Kathy Bates) holding a djembe in a subway terminal is sort of a giveaway. The image, with its train whooshing past and sunburnt tone, essentially gives away the film. What a terrible poster.