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‘The Greatest Hits’ Review: Music Makes the Heart Go Round in Clunky Remix of Better Rom-Coms
Lucy Boynton plays a woman launched back into a past relationship every time she hears a familiar song in a shallow tribute to the power of music.
In mopey, dopey YA weepie “ The Greatest Hits,” writer-director Ned Benson takes that idea as literally as possible, treating specific tunes as triggers that launch Harriet (Lucy Boynton) back into her past, blowing her away — like that seated guy in the classic Maxell campaign — into the tragic former relationship with hunky Max (square-jawed future Superman, David Corenswet), who died in a car crash. While she tries to block out unwanted oldies, Benson orchestrates ways for Harriet and David to bond in relation to new music: at the record store, attending a dance party DJed by her gay best friend (Austin Crute), etc. Though we’ve waited more than a decade to see what “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” director Benson would do next, everything about that big-swing debut (a love story split into “his” and “hers” perspectives, then braided back together) suggested he was capable of something far less conventional that this.
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