The New Romantic
We live here a romantic and comedy adventure that tells the story of a girl who is still frustrated with the lack of a gentleman in her age. Perhaps it will be quite different when a senior student abandons dating to love so far, but in the end the girl tries to connect with the older man in exchange for new gifts, love and romance that we live in differently.
4 June 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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14 February 1983, Toronto, Canada
14 February 1990, London, Ontario, Canada
9 February 1992, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
21 July 1992, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England, UK
November 16, 2018
The New Romantic suggests, how ever you package it, there's a possibility all our wanderings might still come back to love. Maybe it speaks to some of the deepest longings of our heart.
November 09, 2018
The New Romantic is, in many aspects, an old romantic in that capital-R way. A glorification of a past age thought to be lost... Neither she nor the plot quite reach the sublime, but the film is enjoyable nonetheless.
November 09, 2018
Hinting at contemporary relationship insight without offering any meaningful substance, this breezy romantic comedy is only sporadically engaging.
January 03, 2019
The New Romantic (the debut feature of writer-director Carly Stone) is too slight, both in terms of theme and general characterization, to match up to Barden's performance (which will probably not get the attention it deserves).
October 18, 2018
The waif-like Barden is splendid in the central role, using her expressive eyes in the subtlest of ways to convey emotions.
February 07, 2019
Cannot decide if it wants to be a smutty sitcom or a terrible made-for-TV movie torn from last year's headlines and winds up coming across as a mashup of both.
March 24, 2018
Setting the bar for the film impossibly high with repetitious references to Nora Ephron classics like Sleepless in Seattle, Stone shows she's got spirit, but maybe not the best judgment, much like her protagonist.
November 09, 2018
A somewhat palatable quasi-rom-com that declares the death of contemporary romance from the get-go, only to try and resurrect it later.
November 20, 2018
Carly Stone, a first-time writer-director, introduces a startling degree of pain yet lacks the willingness to fully reckon with it.
November 08, 2018
Mirroring its green protagonist, "The New Romantic" presents an image of sophistication while playing with ideas that are out of its depth.
March 22, 2018
More tragic than funny, but Stone is hoping for laughs - or really, swoons - or maybe just whatever will make audiences happy, an eagerness to please that makes the tone wobble from scene to scene.
November 13, 2018
The New Romantic follows a very familiar arc, but the path is certainly a pleasant one, thanks to Barden's naturally ebullient performance.
