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Weekend Film Reviews

The Big Sick

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Jun. 23, 2017 Entertainment
Maybe the title of The Big Sick could be improved, but everything else conspires to make this romantic comedy a cockeyed classic. It's hilariously hyperverbal, yet wonderfully heartfelt.

Kumail Nanjiani and his real-life wife, Emily V. Gordon (played by Zoe Kazan), wrote The Big Sick as a fictionalized version of their romance, which was interrupted when she was beset by a mysterious illness that threatened to kill her.

Another film worth seeing this weekend is Sofia Coppola's Civil War period piece, The Beguiled. 

 

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