Even the always radiant Laura Linney can't save this misbegotten film.

| Sep 29, 2017

Both genders are programmed by eons of Darwinian genetic strategy, and so we believe them, and because Linney and Grace are sexy and play well together, the age gap is not a barrier so much as additional seasoning.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2004

Despite an excellent supporting cast something in p.s. goes mushy and implausible.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 18, 2004

| Original Score: B | Nov 13, 2004

Can't seem to make up its mind whether it's a romantic comedy, a drama or a psychological thriller and settles for being an odd -- and unbelievable -- hybrid of all three.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 12, 2004

We have a talented director, and a wonderful cast -- but for me this is a near-miss.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2004

Contains more than its share of implausibilities and absurdities -- and let's not even imagine the reception the movie would get if the genders were reversed -- but if it's not Linney's finest role, it contains some of her nerviest work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 7, 2004

The screenplay, adapted by both Kidd and Schulman, apparently leaves out much of the book's biting black humour.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2004

The movie's extraordinary for its two main performances.

| Nov 5, 2004

Somehow, wondrous acting holds things together, particularly that of Linney and Grace.

| Nov 5, 2004

Linney and Grace play off one another beautifully, her reticent better judgment collapsing in equal proportion to his ironic detachment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2004

Deliciously perverse and nutty throughout.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2004

Linney remains a full-blooded character so memorable that she's worth watching -- even in a less-than-memorable movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2004

What a string of contrived coincidences.

| Oct 21, 2004

This sappy stuff gets better direction by Kidd (who made the far superior Roger Dodger) than it deserves.

Full Review | Oct 21, 2004

Goes disappointingly soft despite two dynamite lead performances.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2004

It's a depressing sign of these Botoxed times that we're not meant to question the fact that the ravishing Laura Linney, playing a 39-year-old admissions officer in Columbia's fine-arts department, is over the hill.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2004

Kidd sneaks some pretty profound observations about love and life by us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2004

Kidd nudges his fragile story along at a beguiling pace.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2004

Start the Oscar buzz now for the dependably superb Laura Linney, who brings beauty and a tough core of intelligence and wit to the role of New Yorker Louise Harrington, an admissions officer at Columbia's graduate school of fine arts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2004