Review of In Your Eyes (2014) by Brandon S — 07 May 2015

Joss Whedon wrote this movie at the age of 25 as he was moving to Los Angeles, and it's clear. It's a movie that flows in such a way that it had to have come out of a time of change. A time where everything was new and interesting.

This movie is simply charming. There are moments where the creativity of the premise is exhausted, but this is one heck of a script. It gives all of the actors more than enough to do, as well as rich characters to explore.

The direction may be a little bit underwhelming, but all of the performances are good, and the script is fantastic. This fun romance fantasy is like the anti-Nicholas-Sparks movie. It takes tired beats and makes them interesting by doing what almost every Sparks film I've seen has failed to do: it takes it's audience seriously. This is a movie that doesn't insult the intelligence of its audience. This is a great movie.