Regretting You (2025)★ 6.5/10

Is Colleen Hoover alright? If we go by her published works, I’d say no. It seems like her novels have a similar theme of beauty in tragedy. Similar to Nicholas Sparks, Hoover is now in the phase of her career where her books are quickly being adapted into films, after the success of IT ENDS WITH US. She is now banking on REGRETTING YOU, a romantic drama involving loss, love, regret (obviously), and a serious lack of communication. We have a group of friends: Morgan (Allison Williams), her boyfriend Chris (Scott Eastwood), whose best friend is Jonah (Dave Franco), whose girlfriend is Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald), Morgan’s sister. Fast-forward 17 years. Morgan and Chris are now married, with a teenager Clara (McKenna Grace) with her own teenager problems. After tragedy splinters the family, they are left with many questions. Things get even more complicated when certain secrets are revealed. Emotions run high. I went into this with the knowledge of fairly bad reviews. I happily disagree with those. This does have a very simple and predictable story, but it really worked for me. Clara starts a relationship with the coolest guy in school, Miller (Mason Thames). I’ve become a fan of Thames in the past few years, with him being in THE BLACK PHONE, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, and the recent BLACK PHONE 2. Grace and Thames have a ton of chemistry and are very cute together, it’s no wonder they’re now dating in real life. We get some real conversations about emotional manipulation, which you could say is ironic for this type of melodramatic movie. It can be emotionally confusing at times, not being sure how to feel about something. Most of the film is pretty sad, but there’s also quite a bit of humor that made me laugh out loud, mostly stemming from the side characters played by Clancy Brown, Ethan Costanilla, and Sam Morelos. Overall, I definitely don’t regret seeing REGRETTING YOU. Sometimes the rose-colored glasses look good on me.

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