Shall We Kiss

Plus: Year One, and early opening for Transformers

By Roger Ebert on June 18, 2009

EASY VIRTUE: A young Brit (Ben Barnes) brings his dashing American love (Jessica Biel) home to meet his parents (Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth) with unsettling results.  The early Noel Coward play is adapted with wit and style. (PG-13) Three stars – Roger Ebert


TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN: Early opening. (PG-13)


THE PROPOSAL: The Proposal is a movie about a couple who start out hating each other and end up liking each other. It’s a funny thing about that. I started out hating the movie and ended up liking it. (PG-13) Three stars — RE


SHALL WE KISS?: A story within a story about two lifelong best friends who agree to have sex for purely therapeutic reasons and end up inconveniently in love. Their problems generate complications worthy of a Woody Allen movie, but on such a refined level they always seem oddly artificial. Moderate charm, immoderate naiveté. (NR) Two and a half stars – RE


YEAR ONE: Jack Black and Michael Cera playing themselves, as tribal hunter-gatherers who advance all the way to royal security guards.  Dreary and cheerless slapstick. (PG-13) One star – RE