Dylan Kidd gets the sophmore slump (“Roger Dodger” was a splendid “B+”) and produces a steaming pile of camel dung. A failure on every basic screenwriting level such that even a half naked Laura Linney and a loveably smug Topher Grace (playing exactly 50% his character from “Traffic” and 50% his role on “That 70s Show”) can’t keep this from sucking something awful. I’m giving this a “D” instead of an “F” for two reasons. One is because there is one good moment in the film (and just like in “Tootsie” it is a necktie scene) where Kidd bothered to actually inject something resembling a theme and, two, I can’t give anything with Linney in it an “F.” Ipso facto the film has some merit if she is there.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.