For the curious, “Duck Butter” is NSFW. Or at least, it’s not the kind of film title you want to Google from your work computer. Like a naïf (or an old person), I wasn’t familiar with the phrase “Duck Butter,” but figured that I probably wasn’t about to watch a foodie documentary. As its title implies (if you’re cooler than I am), this comedy from Miguel Arteta (“Beatriz at Dinner,” “Chuck & Buck“) is sexy and sexually frank in its depiction of a relationship in fast forward.

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Please don’t Google “Duck Butter.” The term, not the movie. Of course, now that it’s been mentioned, you’re probably going to Google it anyway. Just keep in mind, we warned you.

What is a pretty strange title for a film actually makes sense when you hear the co-writer and director Miguel Arteta explain it, in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, “Love is a mess.

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