A divorcing couple tries to maintain their friendship while they both pursue other people.
It’s not a bad set-up, but the film lets everyone talk a lot without ever having much to say.
Fortunately, a strong final act eventually wins you over, making Celeste and Jesse Forever a flawed but intriguing take on a well-worn genre.
The leads are engaging enough but it’s too inconsequential to make you care.
The film has its moments of very icky mawkishness but it’s also consistently funny, caustic and well observed.
Nothing in this comes close to matching the brilliance of Silver Linings Playbook.
A low-fi indie that swiftly slums into terminal feyness.
For all its contortions, the film has ended up back at cliché ground zero, with its two leads an unlikeable, commitment-phobic slacker and an even less likeable shrew tormented by the tick of her ovaries.
There are some nice moments, but it's unbearably self-conscious and nowhere does it resemble real life.
A good-natured, laid-back indie comedy turns into a dark-ish drama, just as it was starting to look like a 21st-century answer to When Harry Met Sally.
Charming, lightweight.
Charming and not without its moments, but far too conventional to capture the complexity it strives for.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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