Chasing Amy

“Chasing Amy” has a whole bunch of problems. It reads as complacent or even regressive when it comes to gender politics, it picks the wrong character to serve as protagonist, and a few scenes feel extraneous save to get this film close to two hours. It has fewer problems than “Clerks”, though, and the complex character relationships that drive the plot are surprisingly well-realized for a film that has a foot in dood-bro idiocy, culminating in one of Kevin Smith’s better (and more earned) climaxes. Not the emotional tour de force some claim, but it almost gets to that level.

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