New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Rose Byrne
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Funny Girls
With Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and company crash the boys’ club of big-screen comedy
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Insidious Phones It In
The latest shocker from the guys who gave us Saw is too small for the big screen.
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Madam, I’m Adam
In this week’s issue, Cliff Doerksen reviews Max Mayer’s romantic comedy Adam, with Hugh Dancy as a young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and Rose Byrne as the young woman who finds him attractive. “Like many films of its genre,” Cliff writes, “it’s less interesting as a movie than as a map of gender […]
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Beauty and the Geek
Review of Adam, a romantic comedy about a “neurotypical” woman and a man with Asperger’s.
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Handsome but intriguing
Chick flick stalwart Hugh Dancy is the “handsome but intriguing,” astronomically obsessed hero with Asperger’s Syndrome in Adam, the romantic comedy by Max Mayer that plays in a preview screening tonight at AMC River East