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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things: Kathryn Newton as both angel and catch of the day.
From the look of things, Mark (Kyle Allen) is definitely a morning person. He impresses both his dad and younger sis by tending to every item on his breakfast menu with the skill and grace of a six-handed juggler. En route to school, he guides his bike in the direction of the car with a coffee cup perched atop the driver’s side window. He scoops! He sips! He scores with a perfectly-timed slam dunk into a turning garbage truck. Mark is so good, his “Bless you!” anticipates a sneeze by seconds. Has he seen
By MARK VIOLA
The “Groundhog Day” trope, in which someone repeats the same day over and over again, is one of my favorites. There is just so much you can do with the concept, although “Groundhog Day,” the namesake 1993 comedy starring Bill Murray, is, and will likely always be, the best example of it.
Recent examples I’ve seen using this trope include “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Before I Fall” and last year’s “Palm Springs,” which made it on my Top 10 list of films from last year. (“Edge of Tomorrow” also technically made my list for 2014 as part of an Honorable Mention to the summer blockbusters of that year.) Suffice it to say, these movies just work for me.
Film Review: “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things”: A Perfect Valentine’s Day Thing
America loves its time-loop movies: “Groundhog Day,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Palm Springs,” to name a few, and even “Back to the Future” has time-loop elements. Arriving in time for St. Valentine’s Day, “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” adds a quirky, fun, teen comedy-romance entry to the genre. Mark (Kyle Allen) and Margaret (Kathryn Newton) are teens stuck in a time loop, in “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things.” (Amazon Prime Video)
He’s Got It All Wired
Mark (Kyle Allen) is a Ferris Bueller-type high schooler from Fairhope, Alabama. He seems awfully prescient. In fact, he seems like some kind of advanced honor student who really ought to already be at MIT or something. But not in an academic sense. It’s just that he’s got exquisite timing. He does stuff like breezing into the kitchen for breakfast, snatching the toast exactly as it pops out of the toaster, staying a
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