Actress-filmmaker Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical midlife-crisis tale The Forty-Year-Old Version evokes memories of Woody Allen + Paul Mazursky.
Relationship Comedies
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The Women remake with Meg Ryan. In the old Margalo Gilmore (on Broadway, 1936), Norma Shearer (1939), and June Allyson (1956) role, 1990s Hollywood Sweetheart Meg Ryan plays a materially…
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The sharp and well-acted romantic comedy In Stereo feels like a throwback to edgy American indies of years past. Micah Hauptman stars.
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Woody Allen is pissed and it shows in the mordantly thoughtful and beautifully acted social satire Blue Jasmine. Cate Blanchett stars.
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Carnage review mix is less than enthusiastic: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski’s post-arrest comeback. Based on Yasmine Reza’s play God of Carnage, Roman…
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The true-to-life sex romantic comedy-drama Young People Fucking is both provocative and sporadically surprising. The cast is uniformly good.
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Writer-director Francis Veber’s The Valet movie is his latest hilarious French farce. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gad Elmaleh and Kristin Scott Thomas.
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One man’s disastrous romantic heartbreak is great comedy fodder in Nicholas Stoller”s Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Jason Segel and Kristen Bell star.
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Directed and written by Chris Rock, who also stars, I Think I Love My Wife is an utter failure as both social commentary and comedy. Kerry Washington costars.
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Trust the Man with Julianne Moore and David Duchovny. ‘Trust the Man’: Stellar cast fails to save unromantic & unfunny romantic comedy Like social scientists who spend too much time…
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Alexander Payne’s road movie comedy Sideways suffers from a much too ardent desire to pander to its audience - to the detriment of its characters.
Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche: ‘The Players’ posters and 9/11 joke removed. World Trade Center 9/11 joke removed from Jean Dujardin sex comedy ‘The Players’ “Jean Dujardin, already Oscared, can…
Fans should be happy with the Sex and the City movie, a sequel to the hit series about the love lives of 4 female New Yorkers. Sarah Jessica Parker star.
Queens (2005) movie review: Fluffy but amusing and mostly well-acted gay marriage comedy. Cast: Carmen Maura, Marisa Parade and Hugo Silva.