Where to draw the line between friends with major benefits and something, say, slightly illegal? For college student and aspiring professional journalist Blake (Jessica Barden), the question seems more academic than practical, even when she’s the sugar baby dating a wealthy older man in return for some attractive perks.
Writer-director Carly Stone’s interest in the topic is only slightly more considered, since she’s really more interested in crafting an incisive millennial rom-com, but The New Romantic comes off as too forced and calculated. Setting the bar for the film impossibly high with repetitious references to Nora Ephron classics like Sleepless...
Writer-director Carly Stone’s interest in the topic is only slightly more considered, since she’s really more interested in crafting an incisive millennial rom-com, but The New Romantic comes off as too forced and calculated. Setting the bar for the film impossibly high with repetitious references to Nora Ephron classics like Sleepless...
- 3/23/2018
- by Justin Lowe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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