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Mike White, the writer of Chuck & Buck, School of Rock and Nacho Libre, is unquestionably a talented fellow, and there are some decent moments in his directorial debut.
After the coincidence of two movies about unexpected pregnancy (Waitress, Knocked Up) recently opening two weeks apart, Hallam Foe is the first of two films arriving within a fortnight (Disturbia follows) that feature a 17-year-old male voyeur as the central character.
The 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.
TV director Joe Wright brought style and a bit of gritty realism to his hit adapation of Pride & Prejudice. As a follow-up, he's tackling another literary heavyweight, though of more recent vintage, writes Donald Clarke