Weekend Movie Forecast: Harry Potter or 500 Days of Summer

Rom-com 500 Days of Summer stars the perfect in every way Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick) as Tom, a greeting card writer rightfully obsessed with Deschanel, the titular "Summer." Roger Ebert writes, "Some say they’re annoyed by the way it begins on Day 488 or whatever and then jumps around, providing utterly unhelpful data labels: "Day 1," "Day 249." Movies are supposed to reassure us that events unfold in an orderly procession. But Tom remembers his love, Summer, as a series of joys and bafflements... Tom opens the film by announcing it will not be your typical love story. Are you like me, and when you realize a movie is on autopilot you get impatient with it? How long can the characters pretend they don’t know how the story will end? Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why."