Did you ever notice that the best romantic comedies are often the cynical ones? Look at those from the classic era. Something like The Awful Truth – in which Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play a perfect couple who happen to be in the midst of a divorce – even had cynicism dripping from its

“Sex is usually an intellectual endeavor for Woody Allen, but this cast forces him – and us – to get out of our heads.

“While watching insipid romantic comedies, I often cling to the comic supporting characters as my life preserver.

Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) have grown up since the early episodes of the HBO series (which was when I last saw them). They’ve gone from being shallow fantasy figures to something resembling real women. As a result, Sex and the City makes good use of

“Something didn’t feel quite right, but it wasn’t until the climax when it hit me…

Producer Judd Apatow may be pushing his casting luck with the bland Jason Segel, who plays a music composer trying to recover from being dumped by a television star (Kristen Bell). Thankfully Segel, an Apatow regular, also wrote the script, which in between the outrageous sexual hijinks actually owns up to the reality that there

“The multiple levels of self-delusion on display are astonishing.

Katherine Heigl, whose comedic performance matched that of any of the boys in last summer’s Knocked Up, gets her own movie with 27 Dresses, but it’s such a forced, dim-bulb romantic comedy that you only get occasional glimpses of her considerable talent. Heigl plays Jane, a perpetual bridesmaid who is pining for her too-good-to-be-true boss

“…so bland, lifeless and unimaginative I wanted to poke the screen to make sure it was really there.