If you're looking for an "irresistible" new rom-com to catch this Bank Holiday weekend, then it's worth checking out Finding Emily. Featuring Alien: Romulus' Spike Fearn and Spider-Man's Angourie Rice, the story focuses on a musician's search for his dream girl.
Things kick off as the lovesick artist is given the wrong number for the woman, and as such he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. They embark on a campus-wide frenzy amid their search, which ends up testing their own hearts and ambitions.
Fans wanting to catch the Manchester-set film can do so from today, with Finding Emily now out in UK cinemas.
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Run Away's Minnie Driver, Patience's Ella Maisy Purvis, Waterloo Road's Cora Kirk and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder's Yali Topol Margalith are also part of the ensemble, while Alicia MacDonald has directed and Rachel Hirons has written the screenplay.
The movie has attracted a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews so far, The AU Review writing that "rather than trying to reinvent the genre, the film leans into what has always made these stories so irresistible: yearning, awkwardness, emotional chaos and the hope that connection can still surprise us".
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Time Out compared it to romcoms such as Notting Hill and When Harry Met Sally…, suggesting it has "enough originality to keep things from feeling formulaic", while ScreenHub said it is the "sort of feel-good film that will enliven wine nights in for decades to come".
"Finding Emily is something of a graduate thesis in its own right, proving that Hollywood gloss can be balanced with British grot and citing a wide range of sources from Romeo and Juliet onwards," added Sydney Morning Herald.
Meanwhile, Hey U Guys wrote: "Finding Emily may follow a familiar formula, but it does so with style, humour, and a genuine emotional core that’s difficult not to fall for."
Finding Emily is out now in UK cinemas.
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