Holiday Weekend Movie Forecast: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road

In Last Chance Harvey, downsized jingle writer Harvey (Dustin Hoffman) strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a bureaucrat at the Office of National Statistics, at an airport bar. Romance slowly blossoms, which sounds dreadful, but Aaron Hillis at the Village Voice can't bring himself to hate it: "Can a heartwarming meet-cute as unambitious and overtly sentimental as Last Chance Harvey be simply too nice to get beat up on by anyone other than the coldest of bastards?... Besides being old pros who could elevate such schmaltz in their sleep, Hoffman and Thompson—despite the 20-plus years between them, and her graceful restraint in contrast to his creepy assertiveness—have a genuinely sweet chemistry, which is the exact and only reason to seek this one out."