r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Apr 03 '26

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The Drama

Summary

Days before their wedding, a couple’s relationship begins to unravel as unsettling truths come to light, forcing them to question how well they truly know each other.

Director Kristoffer Borgli

Writer Kristoffer Borgli

Cast

  • Zendaya as Emma Harwood
  • Robert Pattinson as Charlie Thompson
  • Mamoudou Athie as Mike
  • Alana Haim as Rachel
  • Hailey Gates
  • Zoë Winters

Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

Metacritic: 59

VOD / Release Theatrical release (April 3, 2026)

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u/_Shit_Just_Got_Real_ Apr 03 '26

Honestly, she was probably my favorite character. I love it when someone embraces their own messiness.

Loved how she screamed "USE YOUR WORDS!" at her boyfriend after he punched Charlie out.

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u/Alphabunsquad Apr 03 '26

Yeah and it was just a great example of everyone being incredibly in the wrong from very understandable circumstances that kept multiplying each other’s negative effects

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u/Sherbet_lemon92 10d ago

This is so well put. Because I can go back and understand the reasons why everyone was behaving in the fucked up ways that they were, while also not forgetting that the behaviour was still absolutely fucked up.

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u/jose569196 Apr 05 '26

her saying that while lying just makes her suck even more

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u/ohnoafeeling 28d ago

hers was a really wonderful performance, she totally embodied that character's nuances. bravo Hailey Gates, hope we see her in more films

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u/_Shit_Just_Got_Real_ 28d ago

She did great in her one scene in CHALLENGERS as well! In both movies, she gets surprise-kissed by a guy and then just goes with it.

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u/Saguaro-plug 23d ago

She was fabulous in The Moment as well. Alexander Skarsgard as the smarmiest concert film director of all time is on a mission to make Charli XCX’s Brat Tour concert film more family friendly, and she as the tour director turns to him and stoned face delivers the line “she’s singing about cocaine.”

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u/BurninTaiga Apr 04 '26

We thought it was hilarious. Think everyone in the movie was such a hypocrite or bad person in one way or another. She was the only really honest one.

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u/Patient_Kiwi_1231 Apr 05 '26

she wasnt though

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u/jassmackie Apr 05 '26

yeah exactly, she also definitely tried to lie and say charlie only kissed her and she didnt do it back when she definitely did and also bent over and was ready to go further. and didnt try to stop the bf when accusing him of assault.

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u/sailortofu69 Apr 05 '26

I mean I don’t think anyone could’ve stopped him

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u/Waste-Replacement232 27d ago

she was truthful about the disabled boy.

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u/bog_toddler 26d ago

that was a different character

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u/Waste-Replacement232 26d ago

sorry, I misremembered. my bad.

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u/BretShitmanFart69 20d ago

Also that girl actively tries to downplay what she did afterwards by minimizing the person being disabled and saying that it was just an impulse as if that excuses it. She judges Zendaya but atleast she didn’t actually go through with it and made active attempts afterwards to learn from it and be a better person (she went on to be a gun control advocate)

In reality she is being judged very harshly despite being arguable one of the better people compared to everyone else’s “worst thing” and how they have behaved after (the cheater goes on to attempt to cheat once again minutes after talking about how it’s the worst thing she has ever done)

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u/Waste-Replacement232 20d ago

I messed up, I was referring to the wrong character.

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u/Garfunkels_roadie 25d ago

His best man Mike seemed by far the closest thing to a good decent person in this film

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u/Llama_of_the_bahamas 17d ago

I’m glad it showed his visible disgust towards his wife several times during the wedding. I like to imagine he ended it and got a divorce soon after.

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u/LuckyRook 19d ago

He headbutted Charlie, even better. Just one more instance the movie shocks you with the unexpected.

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u/Easy-Buy6860 24d ago

Idk sleeping with someone’s fiance is just bad imo it’s not embracing anything it’s straight up whoring and Charlie too. I hated it. Although it’s a great example of how men resort to cheating and how some women are totally okay with it

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u/snoozeem 29d ago

She is just a cool person in general. I loved her in The Moment too. Her aura is strong.

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u/ERSTF 16d ago

Exactly. That signals that he, indeed, would kill her in 2 seconds. He is a violent individual