Who does Ben Younger think he is, Woody Allen? asked Ben Kenigsberg in The Village Voice. His new movie has flipped the age and gender dynamics of a typical Allen film, pairing a 37-year-old woman with a 23-year-old man. Fresh from a divorce, Rafi (Uma Thurman) falls for a young painter named David (Bryan Greenberg), not realizing that her lover is her therapist Lisa
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