The evil-smartphone movie Jexi doesn’t understand why people like technology

Photo: David Moir / Lionsgate The new evil smartphone comedy Jexi is a desperate mock-up of recognizable human behavior, but one key element rings truer than most Hollywood productions: characters are constantly looking at their phones. It’s not just aspiring journalist Phil (Adam Devine), the film’s awkwardly isolated, phone-obsessed hero. Jexi briefly pathologizes Phil’s particular fixation through a couple of flashback scenes where, as a child, he’s repeatedly handed