Playing It Cool
A guy makes unwavering effort to pen his experiences on his unreciprocated love.
12 October 1983, USA
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
23 December 1963, New York, USA
29 April 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 March 1976, Winthrop, Iowa, USA
30 July 1982, Santa Monica, California, USA
14 November 1964, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
30 October 1978, Fort Ord, California, USA
July 17, 2015
The result is catastrophic. [full review in Spanish]
May 08, 2015
Screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair's script feels like a first draft that was written in one night as they got pumped up on Red Bull and speed-watched Netflix.
May 05, 2015
Proving that its chosen genre is best when its tropes are treated with a balance of sincere sweetness and wink-wink absurdity, Playing It Cool thrives through sheer liveliness, as well as the chemistry of its perfectly paired stars ...
July 17, 2015
A Rom-Com that tries to hide the lack of originality in the genre by using innovative storytelling. [full review in Spanish]
December 18, 2015
Worst of all, though, is its wholesale waste of an insanely talented cast - and not just Evans and Monaghan... I enjoy every last one of them, but not like this. Dear god, not like this.
May 08, 2015
Only the really strong cast, including great chemistry between the leads, keeps "Playing It Cool" from totally derailing.
May 07, 2015
You know you're in trouble when almost every character is given a name except the two leads.
August 14, 2015
Far from playing it cool, the filmmakers are trying way too hard to look cool, and so they achieve the opposite.
May 07, 2015
A broad romantic comedy that submits the genre to such a rigorous self-examination it nearly tips over into parody - which would have been a good thing.
May 09, 2015
'Playing It Cool' gave me a bad case of the rom-com blues. I was expecting '500 Days of Summer' and got 'Fool's Gold' instead.
May 07, 2015
Proceeding with a strained quirkiness that infects much more than the names of its main characters, this first feature by Justin Reardon is a paean to the kind of narcissism that sucks the air out of every scene.
