There is no shortage of movies built around high school reunions.
The Best of Times.
Peggy Sue Got Married.
Grosse Pointe Blank.
Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion. Just earlier this year there was
American Reunion, a terrible, lifeless comedy that couldn't make us care about the adult lives of a group of characters even though we had already spent
three movies with them. This year's much better reunion movie is the barely-released comedy drama
10 Years, written and directed by Jamie Linden. It's a high school reunion movie less concerned with looking back than with examining the present. It presents no real villains, nor characters with longtime scores to settle. It's not as good as Ted Demme's great
Beautiful Girls, but it belongs much more in that conversation than it does with junk like
American Reunion.
