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|, September 15, 2020 The 25-year-old Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan, having already stolen movies left and right, more straightforwardly owns “Broken Hearts Gallery,” a glossy but spirited Gen-Y romantic comedy imbued with the wit and spunk of its young star. All rights reserved. Although the explanation is meaningful, that personality trait is so formative to who Lucy is that its justification could have been expanded into more than one scene. For anyone not in the very specific demographic group depicted, the experience of watching this is like being trapped in a tiny downtown club, where the food isn't that good and the portions are tiny. In a real do-you-want-to-feel-old statement, he says, “I’m building a place that feels like the spots I fell in love with when I first moved to New York.” Oh, yes, those halcyon, wistfully remembered boutique-hotel days of 2007! | Rating: 4/5 If you've ever had a broken heart, you will see a little piece of yourself in this artful ode to relationships, broken and otherwise. (The characters tell their stories right into the camera, in the cornball digital equivalent of Warhol Screen Tests.) But Viswanathan, as an aspiring gallerist named Lucy who obsessively collects mementos of former relationships, enlivens the material, crafting a rom-com protagonist of constant humor and self-deprecation who endlessly spouts lines like, when her mind is blown by good news, “What, did I drop acid and this is my ego death?”. On the one hand, the film sticks faithfully to genre tropes. All of those elements are recognizably familiar, but Krinsky’s script is simultaneously wry and earnest, building inner lives for these characters that feel genuine. Krinsky looks like she could be that once-in-a-decade voice who captures her generation -- and her gender -- with smart, witty dialogue; she's stepping into the footprints left by Lena Dunham, Diablo Cody, and Nora Ephron. For a time during the 1990s, the cool profession for someone to have in a movie was to be an architect. All rights reserved. |. In each other, Nick and Lucy sense opportunity: Maybe Lucy, with her art background, could assist with designing the interior of the hotel, and maybe Nick, with all this space on his hands, could house some of Lucy’s exes’ memorabilia. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. She idolizes her boss, Eva Woolf (Bernadette Peters), and knows practically everything about Eva’s career and her perspective on art—information Lucy readily provides to her boyfriend and colleague at the gallery, Max (Utkarsh Ambudkar). THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY follows the always unique Lucy (Geraldine Viswanathan), a 20-something art gallery assistant living in New York City, who also happens to be an emotional hoarder. But in these love-is-an-app days, it is often asked whether true romance is dead, and “The Broken Hearts Gallery” answers that in two charmingly interlocking ways. But in “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” we hear a new one. | Fresh (80) There's enough style and, um, heart in Krinsky's ultra-romantic vision to carry the film through. She was a wise-cracking scene stealer in the sex comedy “Blockers”; communicated great internal struggle as the titular Hala in Minhal Baig’s portrait of a Muslim family; and gave millennials a dogged investigative journalist of their own in “Bad Education.” In “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” her broad smile gives life to zany dialogue like “I love her so much, it gives me diarrhea” (when discussing her respect for her boss) and “I’m in my mid-20s, I barely ever wash my face” (when trying to hold her own against Max’s new girlfriend). Coming Soon, Regal We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Now you’re collecting other people’s junk in addition to your own?”. Written and directed by Natalie Krinsky, her direction allows both leads to find their ground and play their hands. | Rating: 3/4 “Broken Hearts Gallery,” a Sony Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sexual content throughout and some crude references, strong language and drug references. To ease her heart, she comes up with an only-in-the-movies idea she can launch right in the lobby of Nick’s hotel: an outsider-art gallery that showcases people’s mementos of romantic loss. The Broken Hearts Gallery is rated PG-13. There's enough style and, um, heart in Krinsky's ultra-romantic vision to carry the film through. The intent of this review is not to encourage or discourage anyone from attending a theatrical screening at this specific time. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. So romance is alive. Geraldine Viswanathan is hugely engaging as the memorabilia-obsessed New York gallery assistant. Viswanathan... shows, as she did in previous roles in "Blockers" and "Bad Education," that she's among the most talented performers of her generation. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Her ex-boyfriend list grows dramatically when see learns her older boyfriend and coworker Max (Utkarsh Ambudkar) is cheating on her; the subsequent meltdown costs her her job a gallery assistant.

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