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There comes a moment in almost every movie romance when words no longer suffice and the music must rise to the occasion. From the initial meet-cutes to the heated arguments and all those third-act sprints to win back the girl, a movie's sound track often does the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building the Perfect Romantic-Comedy Mix Tape | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

In Turkey - now the home of the scholar Kashgari's original manuscript - the Uighurs' plight strikes an emotional chord. And for most outsiders, dusty, remote Kashgar still holds a powerful romantic mystique. Enduring beside billowing sands and beneath glacial peaks, it has charmed and thrilled travelers from Marco Polo to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tearing Down Old Kashgar: Another Blow to the Uighurs | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

Mike, meanwhile, for all his rough edges, is not a predator or a bully but, for his and the movie's perspective, a truth teller. More important, he's comfortable in his own skin, like the Rogen and Segel guys. The Ugly Truth thus establishes its agenda as a rehab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Truth: Katherine Heigl Gets Mocked Up | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

The director, Robert Luketic, who did the very agreeable Legally Blonde (written by two of this movie's screenwriters), falls down big time here. He gets no connection, let alone chemistry, between the two leads, and he botches that obligatory romantic-comedy trope, the falling-in-love-on-the-dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Truth: Katherine Heigl Gets Mocked Up | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

I'm not saying that The Ugly Truth is a career ender for Heigl. Indeed, as the first romantic comedy in wide release since Sandra Bullock's The Proposal five weeks ago, the movie will attract its share of dating couples and single women. But if you're looking for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Truth: Katherine Heigl Gets Mocked Up | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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