Love in 'Last Kiss' rarely fancy-free; Angst-y Braff meditates over relationships again.(SHOW)(MOVIES)(Movie review)

Washington Times, The, September, 2006

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The coming-of-age film has a long tradition. You know the genre people in their late teens or early 20s who are forced to face growing up, often in a world that doesn't live up to their idealistic expectations. But the world has changed. Adolescence is now prolonged by almost a decade many people don't really begin to feel like adults until they hit 30.

So perhaps the time is right for a new sort of coming-of-age story like the comedy-drama "The Last Kiss." Zach Braff ("Scrubs," "Garden State") plays Michael, a successful architect who is at long last settling down albeit against his will. His gorgeous girlfriend, grad student Jenna (Jacinda Barrett, who got her start on MTV's "The Real World"), has just...