How Do You Know

February 10, 2011

How Do You Know

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2011 A-listers Reese Witherspoon (a pro softball player), Paul Rudd (a financial fall guy about to be federally indicted) and Owen Wilson (a Washington Nationals ace pitcher and king of the one-night stand) help writer/director James L. Brooks (The Simpsons, Terms of Endearment, As Good As It Gets) elevate […]

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2011

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A-listers Reese Witherspoon (a pro softball player), Paul Rudd (a financial fall guy about to be federally indicted) and Owen Wilson (a Washington Nationals ace pitcher and king of the one-night stand) help writer/director James L. Brooks (The Simpsons, Terms of Endearment, As Good As It Gets) elevate this amiable if unremarkable love triangle to a watchable level. Call it It’s Complicated for a younger crowd. But Jack Nicholson, being Jack Nicholson, disrupts the film’s focus in every scene he’s in, and some uninteresting subplots are not well integrated and feel like padding. Not Brooks’ best work.