Love Again (2023) - Movie Review

I first became aware of this… product (yeah, it’s gonna be one of those reviews, strap in) when a trailer for it showed up during a preview screening I went to for FilmInk. I had two immediate reactions to it: “But why, though?” and “There’s no way this is a real movie”. Yep, we have another Boss Baby situation, where it feels like I need to be convinced that the film I’m looking at even exists in the first place. It’s a testament to just how much raw cliché and sheer bewilderment was compressed into a single point to create that trailer. And yeah, now that I’ve sat through the whole thing, I can definitely confirm that it exists… although that just raises more questions.

Isn't It Romantic? (2019) - Movie Review

You know a certain genre has reached a level of ubiquity when ‘it’s ___ for people who hate ___’ is a legit selling point. Of course, saying that most rom-coms are trope-fests zested with clichés ahoy isn’t exactly controversial; hell, pointing that out is itself a bloody cliché at this point. I myself have made it a habit of pointing this shit out whenever I cover romance flicks, and the ones that I particularly gravitate towards like The Breaker Upperers and even Silver Linings Playbook actively subvert those same clichés. But even with that in mind, given my lukewarm reception to Rebel Wilson and Adam Devine, I wasn’t expecting all that much from this. But finally, it seems like they’re both attached to a project that knows how to fully utilise them.