To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)
“There is nothing worse than nothing feeling chosen.” The To All the Boys trilogy – rounded out by an excellent and sweet third course – shares a similar trajectory to the […]
Category Archives: Romance
Sylvie’s Love (2020)
“You’re not ordinary to me.” Sylvie’s Love feels like the kind of rare, finely aged, backroom bottle you’d have to ask a sommelier to bring to the table instead of […]
Love Actually (2003)
“Love is everywhere.” I find it nearly to impossible to not swoon over the sentimental beginning of Love Actually. Released at the start of 2003’s cozy holiday season, the film […]
Happiest Season (2020)
“I’m just not a huge Christmas person.” Cute and passionate and progressive. Dramatic and perceptive and just a wee bit political. Happiest Season packs in all of the standard holiday […]
Holidate (2020)
“It’s not meaningless.” Raucous, raunchy, and better than expected, Holidate is a rom-com that addresses the clichés of its formula and lives by them with a more mature twist. This wouldn’t […]
Love, Guaranteed (2020)
“It’s a jungle out there.” After a rough and rocky 10 minutes or so, I was convinced that Love, Guaranteed would comfortably reside towards the top of my imaginary year’s […]
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
“You live in the past.” Sometimes you watch a movie and can tell everyone involved just had a blast in the process of making it. That they had fun and […]
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
“How hard could it be to hide my burgeoning insanity from the unforgiving ecosystem that is high school?” Visually creative, deeply empathetic, refreshingly familiar. Those are the taglines I would […]
Chemical Hearts (2020)
“Being young is so painful.” Heavy on heartache and a proud bearer of truthful growing pains, Chemical Hearts is yet another entry in the long line of High School Senior […]
The Lost Husband (2020)
“It’s hard to lose your person and your whole life in a year.” There’s something so oddly comforting and relaxing about just how small and run of the mill The […]
