Romance Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Romance

Review

Queer review – Burroughs would be proud

by Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagnino heads on down to Mexico with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in his freewheeling take on William S. Burroughs’ eponymous novel.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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All We Imagine as Light review – this one is for the lover girls

by Jenna Mahale

Payal Kapadia’s first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Layla review – Bilal Hasna shines

by Marina Ashioti

This occasionally-vibrant odd couple gay relationship drama is too superficial and silly to leave a lasting mark.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

Anora review – an amazing, hypermodern concept for a film

by David Jenkins

A young sex worker thinks she’s hit the jackpot when she falls for a Russian nepo baby, but his parents have other plans in Sean Baker’s anti-rom-com.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

Timestalker review – ripples with insight and emotion

by David Jenkins

Alice Lowe’s miraculous second feature is a triumph of imagination, soul-searching and a refined comic instinct.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

It Ends With Us review – struggles to grapple with its heavy themes

by Anna McKibbin

Literary behemoth Colleen Hoover makes her cinematic debut, with this meandering, shallow examination of domestic abuse.

2
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

The Nature of Love review – cinematic and exuberant

by Josh Slater-Williams

A university professor’s life is turned upside down when she falls in love with a construction worker in Monia Chokri’s understated romantic comedy.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

The Beast review – a mind-boggling, sprawling romantic epic

by Hannah Strong

Across three timelines, a pair of lovers find each other again and again in Bertrand Bonello’s ambitious, genre-defying latest.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

The Idea of You review – a sultry unexpectedly entertaining romance

by Hannah Strong

Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old single mother who embarks on a torrid love affair with a 24-year-old pop star in Michael Showalter’s schmaltzy but not without charm rom-com.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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The Taste of Things review – every frame is delectable

by David Jenkins

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmets in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect

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