**** 1/2 Bitter romance is best entertainment!

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2001)

Excellent relationship comedy that uses the best of the music from the eighties as backdrop to John Cusack narrating his worst breakups. Cusack, who also co-wrote the script based on the book by Nick Hornby, is at his sleepy best as the record store owner who can't seem to get wise to what the women around him want from him. Jack Black is hysterical as the acid-mouthed employee at the store, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lily Taylor and Iben Hjejle are also very memorable as some of the women in his life.