The Big Sick

I fell hard for both Ms. Kazan and Mr. Nanjiani and The Big Sick, which tells a great story with waves of deep feeling and questions of identity and makes the whole thing feel like a breeze.

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A winning relationship comedy and major breakthrough for director Michael Showalter and co-writer/star Kumail Nanjiani.

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The Big Sick has the confidence to let the audience come to Nanjiani and Gordon's fictionalized real-life situation, rather than yank us in, kicking and screaming.

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It sounds impossible—too melodramatic, too crazy—but it’s true. Actor and writer Kumail Nanjiani fell in love with his then-girlfriend, now-wife, Emily V. Gordon, when she was in a coma.

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Drawing from his own real-life experiences, a stand-up comic deals with culture clashes and a girlfriend in a coma – and a romcom star is born.

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There’s a certain flat indie artlessness to “The Big Sick,” but it’d be shortsighted to discount how well-written and well-acted it is.

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Kumail Nanjiani spins his real love life into the charming romantic comedy of The Big Sick.

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The Big Sick may recall Sundance comedy hits past (Sleepwalk With Me comes to mind), but it’s too affecting to give the redundancies much thought.

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The Big Sick is less a bitter pill and more a genuine story about love, individuality and - biggest of all - life's beautiful imperfections.

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The premise of The Big Sick sounds like something a writer might dream up as a way of freshening up tired romantic-comedy machinery: A young man and a young woman meet and fall in love.

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Kumail Nanjiani stars (alongside Zoe Kazan) in the true-life tale of his relationship with wife and co-screenwriter Emily Gordon in Michael Showalter's first straight-ahead love story.

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The romantic comedy has been declared dead about as many times as Wile E. Coyote ran himself off a cliff, but he always bounced back, and so will the rom-com, so long as there are passionate new practitioners of the genre around like Gordon and Nanjiani.

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The pitch for The Big Sick might sound like a tacky weepie you’d have been afraid to watch on TV in the 1990s.

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It’s the old “Boy meets girl, boy hides girl from his traditional Pakistani family, girl has to be put into medically induced coma because of a mysterious illness” story. Somehow, director Michael Showalter (“Hello, My Name Is Doris”) puts a fresh spin on it.

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The film is always at least gut-rumbling and keeps its humor in situations that are morose and awkward.

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Telling his real-life love story, Nanjiani nails the comedy while Holly Hunter and Ray Romano tackle the dramatic heavy lifting.

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Although The Big Sick breaks new ground as it delves into cultural conflicts, there are patches of the drama that give you pause.

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