Love Happens

Its title conjures up images of frothy romantic comedy banter, or at least swooning courtship, but the leaden Love Happens, starring Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston, is a virtually spark-free romance, and devoid of laughs to boot. An attractively shot yet thoroughly inert “tweener,” the movie isn’t dramatically persuasive enough to qualify as a tearjerker, and neither does it move past flitting, light human moments of recognition into substantive comedy. Left to qualify on personality alone, then, Love Happens just happens to sink. For the full original review, from Screen International, click here. (Universal, PG-13, 109 minutes)