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...Development,” but here all he gets is Dennings’ anemic portrayal of Norah. While her character is very poorly developed, one would have hoped Dennings might have injected at least some life into the rich-girl-trying-to-be-normal stereotype. In fact, director Peter Sollett leaves pretty much all of his characters flat and uninteresting. Tris is a vacuous hottie who only wants Nick when he doesn’t want her. Norah’s friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) is a drunken mess whose antics provide many of the film’s jokes?...
Much of Nick & Norah was shot on the Lower East Side, a grimy area that Sollett polishes into a wonderland where parking spaces are always available and the street people are genial poets. He has also enlisted stalwarts from Saturday Night Live (Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg) and the Harold & Kumar movies (John Cho). But this film doesn't need the validation of older comics; it's got winning stars in their early 20s who are true both to this moment and to old star quality. In the 1930s, Hollywood had The Thin Man, with the married couple Nick and Nora...
...this smart, sweet, bordering-on-adorable romantic comedy is its awareness that by senior year, teens have been stuck for so long in their designated roles - nerd, vamp, rebel hottie - that they feel like indentured servants to them. The most agreeable myth of the movie, directed by Peter Sollett and scripted by Lorene Scafaria, from a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, is that spending a night in New York City can crack the shell of stereotype to reveal your utterly cool inner life to someone who turns out to be your soul mate. For Nick, that would...
RAISING VICTOR VARGAS. The summer heat parallels the rising passions of the characters in this teen romance that marks writer-director Peter Sollett’s feature film debut. Sollett plunks his camera down in Manhattan’s East Village and spends some time sketching out the area’s culture and values, particularly as they relate to the relationships budding between three pairs of lovebirds. The inexperienced cast is winning raves from critics; Sollett had used many of the same actors in a short film that he made while studying at NYU. Raising Victor Vargas screens...
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