‘Thelma’ review: Grandma caper movie is June Squibb and Richard Roundtree’s big score

In the best possible way, June Squibb, native of Vandalia, Illinois, Oscar nominee for “Nebraska” and one of the replacement-cast strippers in the 1959 Broadway production of “Gypsy,” has transformed into the Stephen Sondheim lyric written for the stripper she played, Electra, who sang: “I’m electrifying / And I ain’t even trying.”

Thelma’s at her computer at home, in the neighborhood of Sherman Oaks or thereabouts in east Los Angeles. She’s looking for a specific email — her late husband singing “Some Enchanted Evening” — among all her unopened emails. By her side, coaching her through the process, is her loving, slightly directionless but big-hearted grandson Danny .

Now, this could’ve been insufferably cute. And it isn’t! It isn’t. Parts of it are what you’d call sufferably cute, but “Thelma” has a canny sense of timing, and comic tone, which accommodates the serious matters as they arise. Aging, losing friends and spouses, dreading the next fall or stumble, wondering when it’s time to make a change or consent to some help: These musings are ever-present in Margolin’s film.

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