(99 mins, PG)
Directed by Sanaa Hamri; starring Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood

The glossily romantic Something New looks at the problems facing Kenya Denise McQueen (Sanaa Lathan), a high-flying, black career woman in search of an IBM - an ideal black man - who must be handsome, wealthy, college-educated and not crazy. Instead, to the disgust of her upper-middle-class parents, she falls for a white, laid-back dropout working as a landscape gardener. The movie has useful insights into the black experience (its first-time director's father is a Moroccan-Muslim painter and her mother a Russian-American Jew). But it's unsubtle and bottles out in a blundering way at the end.