The Greatest Hits

A run-of-the-mill romance.

Somber depictions of grief don’t always make for great movies. Director/screenwriter Ned Benson ekes out a decent one in this sensitive romantic triangle.

If The Greatest Hits is any indication, I guess they just don’t make time-travel movies like they used to.

Boynton sells her role as the lovelorn crusader with class while the wall-to-wall music, including tracks from Lana Del Rey, The The and a knockout cover of the Cure’s Friday I’m in Love, does a lot of the heavy lifting.

It's cute time-travelling gimmick complicates an otherwise thin romance entirely reliant on tropes.

You know how a pop song from a moment in your past can bring that moment back to life in colors, smells, memories and emotions? “The Greatest Hits” takes that idea and literalizes it right into the ground.

with two magnetic leads...in Boynton and Min, [The Greatest Hits] is such a pleasant delight, that even if it doesn’t quite nail the harmony, it’s melody is rousing enough

The Greatest Hits was almost a good movie if it could have plumbed the depths of these characters a bit more. Instead, it is a forgettable romance with one of the best soundtracks in recent memory.

Like a vinyl record that keeps skipping.

Although it’s a brave move to use structural elements of Slaughterhouse Five as the foundation of a rom-com, Benson’s reach exceeds his grasp.