Reviews

RogerEbert.com — Book of Love

It feels sort of mean trashing “Book of Love,” a bilingual romantic comedy that offers a clever premise but never truly delivers on it in satisfying fashion. Sam Claflin plays an author whose latest novel, “The Sensible Heart,” is a major dud. But the book becomes a huge hit in...

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RogerEbert.com — Simple Passion

I remain on the Sergei Polunin beat at RogerEbert.com with my review of “Simple Passion,” in which the bad-boy ballet dancer plays an elusive Russian diplomat having a purely physical affair with a divorced Parisian professor. It’s all very torrid, but his character is intentionally vapid and boring, and the...

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RogerEbert.com — Die in a Gunfight

Not even sardonic narration from the usually delightful Billy Crudup can save the noisy mess that is “Die in a Gunfight.” And man, is there a lot of it. Crudup’s voiceover smothers everything, early and often, explaining multiple details about the movie’s star-crossed lovers in ways that are overbearing and...

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Breakfast All Day Podcast 4/16/21

It’s the weekend but we’re already looking ahead to “Monday” on Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I differ wildly on the Greek romance starring Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough. We also review the dream pairing of Barbara Crampton and Larry Fessenden in the horror movie “Jakob’s Wife,” the mesmerizing,...

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RogerEbert.com — Monday

Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough have wild, spontaneous sex all over the place in the Greek romance “Monday.” Sounds thrilling, but the highs and lows of this unlikely relationship between two barely developed characters actually result in a repetitive slog. My 1 1/2-star review, at RogerEbert.com. Read the review...

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RogerEbert.com — Wild Mountain Thyme

“Wild Mountain Thyme” offers such a staggering array of Irish cliches, you half expect to see a leprechaun bounding across the lush, verdant countryside, hiding from those kids who are “after me Lucky Charms.” This movie is just relentlessly whimsical, and the accents are distractingly terrible. Writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s...

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RogerEbert.com — All the Bright Places

Elle Fanning and Justice Smith have lovely chemistry as troubled teens trying to rescue each other in “All the Bright Places,” based on the Young Adult novel of the same name, streaming now on Netflix. Brett Haley’s film is idyllic in its depiction of sun-dappled, small-town Indiana, but its realistic...

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RogerEbert.com — Isn’t It Romantic

“Isn’t It Romantic” has a good time toying with all the tried-and-true rom-com tropes — the familiar, feel-good formula that inevitably leads to a happy ending. But it tries to have its red velvet cupcake and eat it, too, in simultaneously ridiculing and embracing the well-worn genre. Rebel Wilson is...

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