New Year's Eve

Like the Times Square celebration, “New Year’s Eve,” a film about many different people on the last night of the year starring just about everyone you’ve ever heard of, is more akin to airhorns, crowds, and glitter than to a satisfying champagne toast and tender midnight kiss.

New Year’s Eve, along with Halloween and Valentine’s Day, is gathering steam as a secular holiday with enough meaning to supersede the religious holidays in our culture. It’s little wonder then, that Garry Marshall, the director who brought you “Valentine’s Day,” is back with a star-packed, overreaching, ultimately empty homage to the last night of the year.

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