Playing It Cool
A guy is inspired to write down his experiences of unanswered love.
29 April 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 September 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
24 June 1980, Stanford, California, USA
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
December 18, 2015
Worst of all, though, is its wholesale waste of an insanely talented cast - and not just Evans and Monaghan... I enjoy every last one of them, but not like this. Dear god, not like this.
July 17, 2015
The result is catastrophic. [full review in Spanish]
May 07, 2015
You know you're in trouble when almost every character is given a name except the two leads.
May 09, 2015
'Playing It Cool' gave me a bad case of the rom-com blues. I was expecting '500 Days of Summer' and got 'Fool's Gold' instead.
May 07, 2015
A broad romantic comedy that submits the genre to such a rigorous self-examination it nearly tips over into parody - which would have been a good thing.
May 08, 2015
Screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair's script feels like a first draft that was written in one night as they got pumped up on Red Bull and speed-watched Netflix.
May 05, 2015
Proving that its chosen genre is best when its tropes are treated with a balance of sincere sweetness and wink-wink absurdity, Playing It Cool thrives through sheer liveliness, as well as the chemistry of its perfectly paired stars ...
May 07, 2015
Proceeding with a strained quirkiness that infects much more than the names of its main characters, this first feature by Justin Reardon is a paean to the kind of narcissism that sucks the air out of every scene.
August 14, 2015
Far from playing it cool, the filmmakers are trying way too hard to look cool, and so they achieve the opposite.
May 08, 2015
Only the really strong cast, including great chemistry between the leads, keeps "Playing It Cool" from totally derailing.
July 17, 2015
A Rom-Com that tries to hide the lack of originality in the genre by using innovative storytelling. [full review in Spanish]
