A Lot Like Love

A Lot Like Love progresses as slowly, and sometimes as irritatingly, as droplets of water trickling from a damp patch in your ceiling. But if you aren't too Type A with movies, A Lot Like Love, which is the kind of delightful, indulgent daydream you can only have in your naïve adolescence, makes for a perfect 2-hour soak-in in the unquestioning pitch dark of the cinema hall.

It is not an adolescent's movie, no. It's the love story of two adults who keep coming back into each other's lives serendipitously, and keep giving up each other again on frivolous whims. And come back tog....