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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘She Came to Me’ characters are too unbearable to be funny

A tugboat captain (Marisa Tomei) becomes a muse for an opera composer (Peter Dinklage) in “She Came to Me.” (Vertical)

If you’ve ever wanted to see a movie starring Peter Dinklage as a morose opera composer stuck in mid-career funk, Anne Hathaway as a high-strung therapist who’s considering becoming a nun and Marisa Tomei as an obsessive-romantic tugboat captain who cheerfully admits she has a stalking problem — well, that’s a very specific wish you’ve got there, and the uneven and bizarre rom-com “She Came to Me” is just the ticket, until it’s not.

This is one of the strangest movies of the year, and while writer-director Rebecca Miller (“Maggie’s Plan”) is an unquestionably talented filmmaker, bold for the sake of bold and zany for the sake of zany only carries the day for so long.

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