{"link":"/movies/all-my-life/","rating":1,"review":"Jennifer Carter and Solomon Chau meet, fall in love, and plan a wedding. Then Solomon gets a terminal cancer diagnosis. Their friends launch a crowdfunding campaign to pay for a wedding before he runs out of time. Marc Meyers builds the film around a single question. How fast can a romance race to the altar before death closes the door. The movie is not about love. It is about a deadline.\n\nJessica Rothe plays Jennifer with a brightness that the script keeps draining from her. She sells the early courtship scenes with real warmth and gives Jennifer a stubbornness that grounds the grief. Harry Shum Jr. plays Solomon as a chef and a romantic who stays gentle even as his body fails. The two of them generate genuine heat in the meet-cute and the cooking scenes. The problem is the screenplay strands them in a story that treats their relationship as a countdown clock rather than a partnership.\n\nMarc Meyers directs from a script by Todd Rosenberg, and the seams show. The camera bathes every interior in golden light and soft focus, the visual grammar of a greeting card. The score swells on cue to instruct the audience when to cry. Meyers cuts the courtship into a montage of restaurant dates and rooftop kisses, then hits the diagnosis and slows everything to a crawl. The film engineers its emotions instead of earning them.\n\nThis is a movie that knows exactly which buttons it wants to push and pushes them without subtlety. Rothe and Shum deserve a script that trusts them to carry a scene without a string section underlining it. The supporting friends, played by Chrissie Fit and Michael Masini, exist only to organize the wedding and react to the tragedy. The film mistakes a sad situation for a story. It asks the audience to weep at the premise and forgets to write the people.","slug":"all-my-life","tagline":"Jennifer and Solomon fall in love and start planning a wedding. Then a terminal diagnosis turns the engagement into a race against the clock. The film knows exactly which heartstrings it wants to pull, and it yanks every one of them.","title":"All My Life","year":2020}