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Though it’s always a bad idea to review a director’s intentions at the expense of the actual results, there’s something about Paul Weitz’s movies that makes you want to cut him a little extra slack.

I love "Ghost," the movie, I really do! It's one of my guilty pleasures! The 1990 movie starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, and the scene-stealing Whoopi Goldberg even received Oscar nods including Best Picture and won two trophies for Goldberg for Best Supporting Actress and Bruce Joel Rubin for Best Screenplay.

As a general rule in the movies, dysfunction is better offered as a side dish rather than a main course, accenting what’s really a story of grieving and letting go, or coming of age, or self-acceptance.

To answer the question that occurred to many when the golden-hued trailer for Shark Night 3D was first unveiled — yes, the sun does eventually set on the film’s hapless group of Louisiana college students, leaving them to battle their way through a long, dark shark night of the soul.

Crazy, Stupid, Love. is, for the most part, an effective love story, but the two figures in thrall to one another aren’t the ones you think: The magnetism between the movie’s two male stars, Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling, is what really makes the movie tick.

Watching a smart romantic comedy like “Crazy, Stupid, Love” in a summer filled with fighting giant robots, magical boy wizards, and avenging superheroes is like drinking a tall, cool glass of lemonade during sweltering heat.