James L. Brooks' new comedy has memorable characters but they get lost on their journey.
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
James L. Brooks always follows his heart. Both what's best about his work as a writer-director — and sections of his new "How Do You Know" are wonderful — and what is not come from the same source: a complete faith in his personal instincts. Instincts that, inevitably, can let him down.
Brooks' films include "Terms of Endearment," "Broadcast News" and "As Good as It Gets" and no one working today creates romantic comedy characters as invigorating, involving and idiosyncratic. No one has his ability to depict people as they are, people so self-aware we hold our breath in anticipation of what their next move will be in the neurotic dance of insecurity and attraction, despair and love. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (5387 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 17 dicembre 2010
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