FILM REVIEW:
What If
By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
Newly single Wallace (Daniel
Radcliffe) meets Chantry (Zoe
Kazan) at a friend’s party and the
two instantly form a connection.
Chantry gives Wallace her phone
number but lets him know she has
a boyfriend and is only interested
in a platonic relationship. Wallace
claims to be fine with this arrangement, but immediately begins a
campaign to split up Chantry and
her boyfriend (Rafe Spall).
New Jersey Stage
The mainstream romantic comedy genre arguably finds itself at
the lowest point of its long existence, thanks to a series of romcoms, starring the likes of
Katherine Heigl and Jennifer
Aniston, that prove short on comedy and equally bereft of romance.
The art of storytelling seems to
have been forsaken by the genre,
with the same generic “when will
Boy A and Girl B realise how per-
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