wickedly ambiguous Sundance conversation-starter “Cat Person,” two singles a half-generation apart see their relationship quite

“Wild at Heart”-era Nicolas Cage, minus the charisma

him as “tall, dark and … problematic” to her roommate

start to text, sending what could aptly be called “mixed messages,” and things get complicated

on Gen Z coming-of-ager “Booksmart,” director Susanna Fogel likes complicated

2017, “Cat Person” originated as a fiction entry in The New Yorker, but quickly became something

ran two months after the magazine published Ronan Farrow’s exposé on Harvey Weinstein, and

conflicting interpretations from any number of perspectives, “Cat Person” invited debate, engaging directly with the

long way from “Say Anything,” but a lot closer to reality, and that’s

might beg to differ with that assessment, as written the movie starts to feel like