The amusing but ultimately tepid comedy Ruby Sparks has a provocative and potentially harrowing premise. At times, the ingenuity and insight of screenwriter and star Zoe Kazan is impressive, even ...

It’s been six long years since Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ narrative feature debut, the much beloved “Little Miss Sunshine.” But the directing duo is back with a new film, “Ruby Sparks,” and ...

Written by actress Zoe Kazan for her and her boyfriend, Paul Dano, Ruby Sparks is a fairly engaging parable about the crap men project on their wives and girlfriends, the sort of controlling fantasies ...

Ruby Sparks is the engagingly off-kilter story of a writer, the girl of his dreams and the power of his pen. Real-life couple Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan star as lovebirds Calvin (the writer) and Ruby ...

"Ruby Sparks" is sweet, dark, and an interesting story of the human imagination. The film has elements of "Weird Science" (1985), "Delirious" (1991), and a dash of "Cool World" (1992), and "Stranger ...

Ruby Sparks (R) (104 min.) — Authors are instructed to write what they know. Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) already did that and became a literary phenomenon; a new Salinger, some say. Now Calvin is ...

t’s been a strange summer season so for at the art house. Unlike last year, which was dominated early both critically and at the box office by “Midnight in Paris,” “The Tree of Life” and “Beginners,” ...

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You know how a Charlie Kaufman script will begin with one kinda neat metafictional idea (a puppeteer creates a portal into John Malkovich’s brain; a theater director creates a work so ambitious it ...

It’s been six long years since Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ narrative feature debut, the much beloved “Little Miss Sunshine.” But the directing duo is back with a new film, “Ruby Sparks,” and ...

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