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metro times: Maybe the 'End of the World' won't be so bad after all

Posted on Fri, Jun 22, 2012 : 1:03 p.m.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Opens today at Quality 16, Rave, Brighton
Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times
Grade: B-

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The apocalypse is hardly where you would expect to find a surplus of whimsy, but the wryly amusing "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" makes the end times seem relatively pleasant. Not so much a disaster picture as low-key romantic comedy with introspection embedded deep in its superstructure, what it lacks in special effects it makes up for in the spectacle of genres rubbing uncomfortably against one another.

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