Directed by Jamie Linden
(PG-13)
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“A relaxed, unforced, melancholy sweetness” makes this modest comedy feel a bit like The Big Chill for a new generation, said Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly. As several old friends gather for their 10th high school reunion, the film’s “accumulation of interesting young stars” becomes a major plus, and the script populates each of its interlocking stories with characters we can care about. Channing Tatum is “charming from start to finish” as an ex-football star whose anxiety about proposing to his longtime girlfriend is compounded when he runs into a former flame, said Stephen Whitty in the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger. Better yet, the actor is smart enough to recognize that his talented co-stars—including Rosario Dawson, Lynn Collins, and Justin Long—deserve the space to play the types of emotionally challenging moments he can’t. All of the stages many of us have experienced at reunions are captured “with empathetic precision,” said Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News. “First we experience the anticipation and nostalgia, then regressions and confessions, and finally, a hard-won sense of closure.”
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