Celeste and Jesse Forever

...director Lee Toland Krieger, Jones, and McCormack have populated a true-to-life situation with sitcom-level characters and sub-sitcom-level jokes.

...a good-hearted romantic comedy about a likable couple — so likable, indeed, that it swims upstream against the current of our desires.

...wears its heart squarely on its sleeve, manages to deftly avoid the usual rom-com clichés, and has enough genuine laughs to mark it an indie winner.

The cast, top to bottom, is terrific, especially the comic actor Andy Samberg...

Jones in particular, has a quirky, honest screen presence to remember, and this story of failure still feels fresher than most successes.