Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan brave the hurdles of interracial romance in the delightful `The Big Sick`
(LA Times Tennis)

`The Big Sick` begins with a meet-cute, proceeds confidently through flirtation, sex and full-fledged romance, then skids to a halt with a nasty breakup, followed by the kind of dire medical emergency that seems fated to end in reconciliation or grief. It sounds like the stuff of a conventional...