New Year's Eve

not a movie, but a patchy newyorker quilt. it does bring about a sense of nostalgia, but there's too lil character development to make this as memorable as "love actually", or even the assembly line of "ny, i love you", "paris, je t'aime", "v-day" or even "he's just not that into you". efron emerges as the most likeable character, edging out jbj by a whisker. read more

there are people who like this movie, i am sure, and they likely will call me out for just not having the right mindset for a film like this. everyone else will say "why in the name of god did you even bother?" in all honestly i didn't hate the first of these garry marshall-directed star-packed rom-coms; valentine's day was hardly a great film but it was appropriately sentimental when you consider the holiday and there was some decent humor. this time around however marshall just packed all the stars he could call in favors for and decided not to worry too much about the script, which is the... read more