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Fri 08 Aug 2007No ReservationsThe fact that so many reviews have referred to this dreary Catherine Zeta-Jones vehicle as a comedy offers further evidence of the decline of the romantic drama as a viable genre.Taking in the death of a sibling and several further personal crises, No Reservations, an adaptation of the passable German film Mostly Martha, does not fit into any currently available pigeonhole. These days, if it's not a romantic comedy it is, it seems, a romantic nothing.