It’s not only about parents and children - Evelyn’s marriage is disintegrating, and her adventures across universes extend to her hapless but sweet husband (Ke Huy Quan). ![]() The summer movie season started (early) with a bang: Everything Everywhere All At Once, a maximalist multiverse comedy about a woman named Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) who desperately wants to reconnect with her daughter (Stephanie Hsu). And in this summer’s crop of movies about love - not romantic comedies, to be sure, but often something better - new kinds of stories are breaking through. But different times demand different measures. Not only are they always conventionally attractive, but they’re often the same exact people. ![]() They’re all pretty career women who are secretly quirky, or a mess, or need to be taken down a peg, and slightly roguish or maybe awkward men. I do mean the plots, sort of the romantic comedy takes a well-worn path, and that’s part of its charm. ![]() I look back on the rom-coms of my youth with fondness now, but it’s hard to deny their everlasting samey-sameness.
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