I Love You Forever

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I Love You Forever

Released Feb 7

1h 29m

Romance

Comedy

Drama

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The current dating landscape is bleak at best, and no one is more aware of this than Mackenzie, a disillusioned 25-year old law student whose love life consists of non-committal hookups and situationships from hell. When she has a "real life meet-cute" with Finn, a handsome and charming journalist, she starts to believe true love may actually exist. However, when the honeymoon phase wanes and the cracks begin to show, Mackenzie is forced to come to terms with whether or not she is to blame or if her love is actually too good to be true.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

It’s a level-headed portrait of a more everyday sort of misery: a relationship that becomes low-key hellish pretty early on and keeps getting incrementally worse.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 7, 2025

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

This is a movie that wears out its welcome early, spinning around the same relationship ideas, and, worst of all, failing to give its lead enough character depth to justify spending so much time with her.

Mar 16, 2024

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Stephen Saito

Variety

A fresh take on a toxic relationship.

Mar 10, 2024

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Julian Roman

MovieWeb

I Love You Forever gets ugly fast in a vapid and nearly unwatchable journey of a toxic relationship's painfully predictable unraveling. Romance isn't on the menu as low self-esteem, psychological abuse, and trauma bonding battle for screen time.

Rated: 1.5/5

Feb 17, 2025

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

... effectively subverts millennial romcom tropes, yet seems to wallow in its misery and despair without a path to sympathy or deeper resonance.

Feb 14, 2025

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Not everything here works, particularly in the way the friend characters react to the situation once it escalates, but the dialogue is sharp and the performances are great all around, especially the wonderfully sardonic Rudnitsky.

Feb 14, 2025

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Devan B

An all too familiar portrayal of the often overlooked and excused behavior of emotional/psychological abuse. Everyone knows someone or has been someone that went through something just like this. This watch proves to be both nuanced and unambiguous, complex and straight-foward in the ways that it has viewers begging Mackenzie to leave and instilling the fear of what will happen if she does. The sardonic humor was refreshing, breaking the hard-to-stomach scenes up and creating familiarity in the sense that most of the time the only way to deal with this kind of trauma is to recognize and match absurdity with hilarity.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/25

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Cazzie David

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Elisa Kalani

Director

Sofia Black-D'Elia

Mackenzie

Ray Nicholson

Finn

Cazzie David

Ally

Jonathan Rudnitsky

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The current dating landscape is bleak at best, and no one is more aware of this than Mackenzie, a disillusioned 25-year old law student whose love life consists of non-committal hookups and situationships from hell. When she has a "real life meet-cute" with Finn, a handsome and charming journalist, she starts to believe true love may actually exist. However, when the honeymoon phase wanes and the cracks begin to show, Mackenzie is forced to come to terms with whether or not she is to blame or if her love is actually too good to be true.

Director: Cazzie David, Elisa Kalani
Producer: Lauren Hantz, Billy Mulligan, Mason Novick, Diablo Cody, Evan Silverberg, Liana Weston
Screenwriter: Cazzie David, Elisa Kalani
Distributor: Utopia
Production Co: MXN Entertainment, Hantz Motion Pictures, Entertainment 360
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 7, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 14, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.5K
Runtime: 1h 29m

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