Broken English

Broken English takes 30 minutes to do what most romantic comedies manage with a simple montage. That's a good thing, by the way.

As charmingly verklemmt New York women with bad luck in men and good luck in apartments go, Nora Wilder in Broken English has all the breaks.

This movie belongs to Posey, and her nuanced performance makes Broken English a worthy adventure.

A conventional New York-lonely hearts story made watchable by one element and one element only: Parker Posey.

For all its impeccable indie credibility, writer-director Zoe Cassavetes' bittersweet romance is little more than a hipster chick flick in which the same old smart women make the usual foolish choices.

Almost nothing that's said or done here is convincing. And the energy is set at near-coma level.

Given the gift of Posey at the peak of her powers, Cassavetes squanders her star in low-key, go-nowhere conversations, shot without flair and drained of any improvisatory energy.