My review of “Black Coffee”, a sermon/lecture masquerading as a rom-com (while being neither romantic nor funny) is now up at Roger Ebert.
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“I’m supposed to feel happy that a veritable villain enjoys swinging on the swings and laughing in slo-mo?”
That line pinpoints so much about what is wrong with modern rom-coms.
Ugh – right? You have to work a little bit harder for me to freakin’ GIVE a shit before you throw a slo-mo montage in my face!