Tragedy Plus Time: The Proposal and Year One Reviewed

News Two new movies opened today, neither screened for critics by WW press time. Better to flunk them tardily than let them pass... The Proposal Now there's a title for a romantic comedy. The premise is similarly grand: A Manhattan career woman (Sandra Bullock) blackmails her emasculated assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into a sham wedding engagement, to save herself from sudden deportation as a Canadian ...   More