A clever conceit that ultimately resolves itself along overly smooth, therapeutic lines. Broadly described, the script’s loopy premise recalls everything from a classic “Twilight Zone” episode (1960’s ...

Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris; Screenwriter: Zoe Kazan; Starring: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Steve Coogan; Running time: 104 mins At first glance, Ruby Sparks ...

The duo that brought us "Little Miss Sunshine" is back with an inventive romantic fantasy starring Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan. By Todd McCarthy The team behind indie blockbuster "Little Miss Sunshine" ...

Vanity Fair had the right idea late last year when it started recapping episodes of the comedy series New Girl by categorizing each of Zooey Deschanel’s idiosyncrasies as either “adorkable” (a ...

"Ruby Sparks" slyly, smartly pokes holes in the romanticism of the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl, specifically. But it also toys with the larger notion of idealizing people you don't really know just because ...

It only took the husband-and-wife team behind Little Miss Sunshine six years to follow up that hit film with this, a project starring and produced by another off-screen couple about a writer similarly ...

The young, successful writer Calvin Weird-Fields gradually begins to run out of ideas. One night when he starts dreaming about a dream girl called Ruby, he starts to write about her. When he wakes up ...

FILM REVIEW: This charming and inventive L.A. romance makes for perfect summer blockbuster counterprogamming. By Todd McCarthy Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano play out their romance on location in Los Feliz ...

Ruby Sparks, an adult fairy tale that leans more toward the Brothers Grimm than Mother Goose, is a late summer revelation. The film launches Zoe Kazan as Hollywood's newest double-threat: lead actress ...

In this metafictional rom-com, Paul Dano plays a bestselling novelist named Calvin Weir-Fields, a onetime prodigy whose genius peaked with the epoch-defining book he published at age 19. In the decade ...