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Director Ken Kwapis (License to Wed, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) assembled an all-star cast to film this unfilmable book of anecdotes about why men treat women badly even when they like them. While the acting is generally solid across the board, the movie, much like the book, has only moments of inspiration. The intertwining relationships — Janine (Jennifer Connelly) is married to Ben (Bradley Cooper) who’s having an affair with Anna (Scarlett Johansson), who’s been in and out of a relationship with Conor (Kevin Connolly), who’s just blown off Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin), who now seeks comfort from Conor’s friend Alex (Justin Long) — seem a bit too fabricated here, making the setting (a very spruced-up Baltimore) seem more like some kind of small town. Still, Goodwin is terrific as the frightfully insecure Gigi and the always solid Connelly (not the typically smug Connolly) is excellent as a woman who’ll do anything to save her marriage. HH 1/2
