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Opens Friday

The movie has a genuine, unforced sweetness. Its charm is in the details, the attitude, the slowly building chemistry between Cera (a master of stone-faced irony) and the beguiling Dennings. Lorene Scafaria’s script, based on a young-adult novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, has real wit. Nick and Norah’s sharp, self-conscious repartee has a snappiness that’s closer to the way real suburban teenagers speak than the baroque one-liners Diablo Cody put in the mouth of Juno (not to mention every other character in that movie, appropriate or not). “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” in its quiet way, captures the first-time-around exhilaration of teen life—that moment when you spread your wings and take unexpected flight.  ~Newsweek

3 Responses to “Opens Friday”

1. Zander Says:
   October 1st, 2008 at 7:21 pm

   I don’t suppose you also have a strange anticipation for the movie “House Bunny” like I do?

2. Zander Says:
   October 1st, 2008 at 7:22 pm

   Correction — I see it was released in the US about a month ago. I just might have to see it this weekend. Don’t hate me.

3. jesse Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 am

   House Bunny is totally worth seeing if you want to see it, if you know what I mean. Anna Faris is amazing in it. The rest of the movie is less than amazing. But it doesn’t deter Anna’s amazingness.

   Stickles, Marisa and I and others are doing N&N this Friday night in Manhattan! Remember, seeing it in Jersey would be wrong! Or at least somewhat less right!

   (But maybe you already saw it, Pants-style.)

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