Estranged couple Meryl and Paul Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) witness a murder and are forced to flee their chic New York lives into the protection of Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen, the sheriffs of slow-pokey Ray, Wyoming. Diabolically inert and tonally clunky, but obviously going for a ra-ta-tat romantic comedy throwback, what […]
Romantic Comedy
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The Proposal gets turned-down
Playing the stereotype of a cold, power-tripping female boss seems beneath Sandra Bullock’s interests. Her appeal has always been that she’s unpretentious and unassuming. Of course The Proposal has to be about her regaining that warm charisma. To avoid losing her job as a Manhattan publishing executive and being deported to her home country of […]
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past casts its dumb glow
The less one likes Matthew McConaughey’s romantic comedy persona, the more one’s likely to enjoy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. The imperfect take on A Christmas Carol still falls for the genre’s status quo message that love and marriage are the only way. But in mocking tacky role-playing cliches the movie goes somewhere better: Dissecting McConaughey’s […]
