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Weekend Film Reviews

The Big Sick

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.

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By Joe Morgenstern • Jun 24, 2017 • 3m Listen

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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    Joe Morgenstern

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