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Much of that appeal comes from compelling performances by the two main actors.Read the full review
It's just more wry than funny, more a gently subversive comedy of modern manners than the simpering date movie it seems to be masquerading as. Read the full review
As Nina, Aniston not only displays a surprising capacity for both comedy and drama, but she shines with the kind of star quality that only a handful of current performers exhibit.Read the full review
Tries to mix the messy realities of mismatched relationships with the structural neatness of a musical-comedy view of the world, with mild, occasionally diverting results.Read the full review
Easier to watch than it is to believe.Read the full review
All of this promising material is dealt with on that level where characters are not quite allowed to be as perceptive and intelligent as real people might be in the same circumstances.Read the full review
Wendy Wasserstein brings a dull pen to this literary adaptation, which shows none of the bite or savvy of Stephen McCauley's novel.Read the full review
So riddled with cultural stereotypes, woe-is-me neurotic mopiness, and glib therapeutic compassion that by the end all it leaves you with is a waxy buildup of falseness.Read the full review
The film is being marketed as a romantic comedy, but it's neither romantic nor funny.Read the full review
The film that Nicholas Hytner has directed (from a screenplay by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein) is slick, sweet, and disastrously unmoving -- even people who live to cry at the movies will find themselves depressingly dry-eyed.Read the full review
