“It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Overachievers need their teen flicks, too. They require stories that relate to the pressures of success, romantic obsessions and fugitive hopes. “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” follows bright, depressed Craig Gilner (Keir Gilchrist) as he checks into the psych ward of a Manhattan hospital. He’s having suicidal thoughts. And second thoughts. Does he really belong on Three North among a population of wounded, idiosyncratic characters? How to explore mental illness — particularly depression — without cheating on the pain that people face is a balancing act that filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck don’t quite pull off. PG-13. 1 hour, 41 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“Hideaway”
*** (out of 4)
The actress Isabelle Carre was pregnant during the filming of “Hideaway,” and the pregnancy of her character supplies the center of the film. It figures in the plot but also in the yearning emotions that take an uncertain form. Two men are fascinated by her swelling womb, and so is she. Carre plays Mousse, an enigmatic 30-ish woman, who discovers that her heroin-addict lover has left her pregnant. His family would prefer that she not keep the baby. She agrees, then disappears to her “refuge,” a lovely chateau overlooking a pastoral sweep of French countryside. The film is by Francois Ozon, who is drawn to parents in awkward forms of love. “Hideaway” is about that particular quiet urgency that many men feel about pregnant women. Not rated. 1 hour, 45 minutes. Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
“You Again”
** (out of 4)
A story that was suited for screwball comedy labors under the delusion that its assembly of half-baked ideas is destined for a higher comic calling. “You Again” is so laboriously contrived in every atom of its being that the only interest is in seeing if the characters can avoid the destinies decreed for them by ancient formulas. No luck. Those who hate each other at the beginning will forgive; those who try to deceive will have their deceptions unmasked. Those destined for love will find it, but not without an obligatory setback at the 66 percent point. . . . The movie’s pleasures are scant, apart from its observance of Gene Siskel’s Rule of Swimming Pool Adjacency, which states that when well-dressed people are near a swimming pool, they will . . . yeah, you got it. PG. 1 hour, 58 minutes. Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
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