What Up Close and Personal" is really about is the chemical reaction set off between Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford. In a love story, if your two stars don't click, all is lost. When they do--as they do here--nothing else really matters.

Is it worse as a love story or as a drama about the sorry state of television news? The answer: It's a tie.

This is one of those untaxing time-killers where you spend a lot of time pondering which of its actress's changing hairstyles you like best.

It is an engaging, almost endearing, film with plenty of issues, but none of those problems generate any kind of animus, just a vague sense of disappointment that it wasn’t ever so slightly better.