Best Sellers

Mainly the film is silly and unlikely... which is a shame because Caine can still bring it.

As an undemanding pas de deux, it's sweet enough.

Rather than bounce off each other, Plaza and Caine slide defeated side-by-side down the face of the movie.

Clichés abound and you think you know where this is going. But in her feature debut, Canadian director Lina Roessler manages some genuine surprises.

If there's a central message we should take home and think about, it eludes me.

Roessler's debut is an enjoyable diversion even though Anthony Grieco's screenplay could have been more pointed about the publishing industry.

Plaza and Caine have wonderfully acerbic chemistry together and Roessler proves herself to be not only a great actor’s director, but has a great eye for composition as well.

Luckily, the convincing performances disguise some of the film's vacillations. Especially Caine, who transforms his physical limitations into a permanent asset. [Full review in Spanish]

Best Sellers is a film that does little to challenge and little to offend, and therein lies its central problem. There is just a sense of missed opportunities to really dive into something with much more wit and bite.

In spite of Caine’s charm and Plaza’s pluckiness, nothing in the movie feels genuine, and that’s a shame, because the conceit of having a politically incorrect dinosaur of a writer working with a young publisher could have been funny.