A wonderful film

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2005)

I saw this in the cinema recently.
I have to say that "Garden State" is the first film in which the adult Natalie Portman fulfils the promise that she showed in "Beautiful Girls" way back in 1996.
The film is a little slow to start (and perhaps self-indulgently weird) but it moves on to explore undiscovered territory for romantic comedies.
Though it's not as amazingly comic as, for example, Kevin Smith's early work (note, Kevin's later work seems to suck more than I can account for) it would appeal to the same people who loved "Clerks".
I _will_ be buying the DVD, but make sure you buy "Beautfiul Girls" first!