Take the shy nerd meets sweet jock dynamic of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, combine it with the sexual self-discovery of Alex Strangelove and the Cyrano-inspired plotting of Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, add just a dash of the economic anxiety of The Perfect Date, and you might end up with something kinda sorta exactly like The Half of It.
For the latest entry in Netflix’s original teen rom com canon, that familiarity is a good thing and a bad thingThe Half of It delivers on the charms we’ve come to expect from these films — the mostly unknown but instantly lovable leads, the warm and fuzzy chemistry between them, the bizarre fixation on handwritten notes by modern-day teenagers. Read more…
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