Film Review – Regretting You

There was a lot of trouble surrounding the 2024 release of “It Ends with Us,” and the legal journey still isn’t complete for the picture. However, the movie was a major hit, finding tremendous box office success as the first adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel, and now the race is on to bring more of the author’s work to the big screen. “Regretting You” is the next out of the gate, reaching theaters about five months after it was shot, aiming to sustain interest from Hoover’s fanbase with another offering of troubled love and broken hearts. Director Josh Boone (“The Fault in Our Stars”) is challenged to make the usual in melodrama somewhat appealing, but it’s an uphill battle with this material, which serves up even more easily solvable communication problems in the guise of devastating personal woes, while Hoover’s fondness for broad conflicts is immediately grating, making for a long sit. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com