Five Feet Apart (2019)
“We’re breathing borrowed air.” Some people will like Five Feet Apart. I mostly didn’t, just to be upfront about it. The film’s informative, delivers a few decent laughs and a handful […]
Category Archives: Romance
Meet Joe Black (1998)
“Who knows? Lightning could strike.” Meet Joe Black is a glorious, supernatural, peculiar movie. An intimate epic about love, about loss, about life and death and the many moving, interchangeable […]
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
“A warrior’s spirit needs a warrior’s body.” By alloying together the futuristic dystopia of Blade Runner with the flimsy romance elements of The Hunger Games, all while styling them both […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
“I didn’t think anyone noticed me.” The title alone says it all: The Perks of Being a Wallflower. So what are the advantages to being a straggler who finds a […]
Isn’t It Romantic (2019)
“You’re blind to love.” Whether or not Isn’t It Romantic intended to actually do so, this unusual and ultimately soft-hearted fairy tale ends up becoming a love letter to the long […]
What Men Want (2019)
“Time to break that glass ceiling.” Surprisingly and substantially worse than the poorly aged original What Women Want released back in 2000, and way less unwitting to boot, What Men Want shifts gender […]
Cold War (2018)
“Time doesn’t matter when you’re in love.” Is love ever really enough? Love for country, for the arts, for another soul? Can love alone salvage and save something or someone […]
Second Act (2018)
“Subtlety doesn’t exist.” Second Act has a message worth listening to and celebrating, telling us that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself or to start writing a new chapter. […]
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
“We were a part of each other, flesh of each other’s flesh.” The poetic nature and often swelling lyricism of If Beale Street Could Talk are proof enough that there’s a […]
The Holiday (2006)
“You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life.” Split into two sorely different halves – one of which is delightfully grounded and the other stuck with its […]
