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Worth a look, depending on your resistance to talky movies

This high-energy look at the highs and lows of breaking up and making up by first-timer Sam Esmail alternates between original and overwritten, simplicity and convolution, elegance and fussiness. Committed principals Justin Long and Emmy Rossum also alternate between engaging and off-putting, and by the end it’s hard to care how they end up. The timeframe-jumping structure can be distracting, but it somehow fits in with how one might look back over incidents in the lifespan of a relationship.

Worth a look, depending on your resistance to talky movies. I’ve sat through much worse. (91 min)

Don Morton

Don Morton has viewed some 6,000 movies, frequently awake. A bachelor and avid cyclist, he currently divides his time between Tokyo and a high-tech 4WD super-camper somewhere in North America.