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...weekend's sole medium-size release, earned $1 million in 350 theaters. A sexual melodrama offering the glory of hot-sheets action between Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore, Chloe will never get near the numbers of a well-promoted movie from a major studio. Nor will Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, a potential-breakout romance that won a sheaf of favorable reviews and has an actual movie star, Ben Stiller, in the title role; it took in $1.1 million on 181 screens. The Runaways, starring Dakota Fanning and Twilight's Kristen Stewart, is already DOA after two weeks. About as close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: A Tale of Two Dragons | 3/28/2010 | See Source »

...impressed by you," she tells Greenberg at one point. This line of thinking pretty much causes her best friend's head to explode and the entire audience to recoil in a collective say what? Should one judge a movie's artistic merits based on how annoyed you are by its characters? No. If likable is what you're looking for, it is inadvisable to trot off to see a Baumbach movie (Margot at the Wedding and The Squid and the Whale featured comparable creeps). That Greenberg has merits is undeniable. Gerwig, a funny mix of Kate Winslet and the joyfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenberg: When the Nasty Guy Gets the Girl | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...cranky as Greenberg is, he's also lonely. He tries out the few old friends available to him in L.A., including another old bandmate, Ivan (Rhys Ifans, lovely as a gentle soul who has learned to live with disappointment), and finds their level of interest in him dissatisfying. The truth is, his old friends know Greenberg to be self-absorbed to the point of parody and they hold him at arm's length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenberg: When the Nasty Guy Gets the Girl | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...relationship with Roger as well. Having nothing better to do, he calls her, makes a pass and she decides almost right away that she wants him to let her in, to really like her. She's a sucker for a wounded soul and for some reason, she finds Greenberg appealing. It can't be the sex: these are the least loving, least sexy, driest sex scenes ever filmed. (He tops off a halfhearted tour of her body by asking if that's a cold sore on her lip.) Like practically every female character ever created by Woody Allen, she inexplicably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenberg: When the Nasty Guy Gets the Girl | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...movie has the curious vagueness of intent that makes so many "meaningful" works of fiction not all that meaningful. I'd be happy to accept Greenberg as a portrait of the terrible insecurities and needs that bring the lovely person and the stinker together. But I doubt that Baumbach intended to make a dramatized version of Smart Women, Foolish Choices. It seems out of character, and the tone is not that of a cautionary tale. I worry that he sees Greenberg as a modern, ennui-filled love story and believes, like Florence, that Greenberg can be saved by the love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenberg: When the Nasty Guy Gets the Girl | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

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