Romantic Comedy

Film Critic for the L. A. Weekly Ella Taylor reviews the new movie "Chungking Express" by writer/director Wong Kar-Wai.

Guest film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum reviews "The Truth About Cats & Dogs."

Guest film critic John Anderson reviews "Love Jones."

Film critic John Powers reviews "My Best Friend's Wedding," which stars Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney.

Film Critic John Powers reviews "Two Girls and a Guy". It stars Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner and Robert Downey Jr. It was written and directed by James Toback.

Film critic John Powers reviews "Next Stop Wonderland," the second, commercial effort by Brad Anderson.

Film critic John Powers reviews "You've Got Mail," which is a modern spin on the 1940 Christmas tale.

Film critic John Powers reviews both "Notting Hill" and "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me."

Film critic Henry Sheehan reviews "Town & Country."

Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new foreign film Mostly Martha.

His new film Pipe Dream opens in New York this week. Donovan has also co-starred in The Opposite of Sex, Insomnia, and many films with the independent director, Hal Hartley.

Movie critic David Edelstein reviews the new romantic comedy.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Along Came Polly, the new comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston.

The premise of Knocked Up is as blunt — as basic — as its title: An attractive and newly successful TV correspondent becomes pregnant after a drunken one-night stand with Ben, who's not just unsuitable but an unholy monument to self-indulgence. Judd Apatow's film is conventional, even conservative, but somehow it plays like one of the hippest movies ever made.

Actor Jason Segel stars as an obnoxious best man in the new "bromantic" comedy I Love You Man. Segel also wrote and starred in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Writer-director Max Mayer's latest film is a romantic comedy in which — what else? — boy meets girl. In Adam, boy has Asperger's syndrome; it's a high-functioning variant of autism that can cause social awkwardness. The film won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance.

Comedians Tina Fey and Steve Carell play a couple bored with their suburban existence in the new comedy Date Night. Critic David Edelstein says the comedic duo can't save a "bloated and generic" film.

In No Strings Attached, Natalie Portman plays a medical resident who wants to sleep with her friend, played by Ashton Kutcher, with none of the messy emotions that come with a relationship. Critic David Edelstein says the film is calculated — and not particularly good.

After six years on Saturday Night Live and many supporting film parts, Kristen Wiig has her first starring role in the romantic comedy Bridesmaids, which has been touted as a Judd Apatow movie for ladies. Critic David Edelstein says it's likely to be a hit with both women and men.

Screenwriter Will Reiser coped with his cancer diagnosis by thinking up ideas for cancer comedy movies with his best friend, actor Seth Rogen. Rogen and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt now star in a film based on Reiser's life. Both Gordon-Levitt and Reiser join Fresh Air for a conversation about the film.