We’ll Never Have Paris (2014)

Although Quinn may strike some viewers as more annoying narcissist than self-deprecating charmer, he's a vivid creation.

It works, mostly, thanks to Helberg’s committed, vanity-free performance, and to the bubbly chemistry between him and the luminous Melanie Lynskey as Devon, his first and only love.

Lynskey's performance is sympathetic, but the movie doesn't fully convince us in its dramatization of her responses to Quinn's large and small blunders.

A sporadically amusing, more often grating romantic comedy.

This derivative comedy, in addition to not being particularly funny, gives off a sense of telling us more than we needed to know.