Next Life

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Next Life

2026

1h 52m

Romance

Drama

Music

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In modern London's jazz world, Ivy discovers alternate realities where her romantic path takes unexpected turns, forcing her to question which life and love she truly desires.

Elizabeth Weitzman

TheWrap

Jun 23

What if you had the potential to experience two lives, but neither of them was particularly exciting?

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Angie Han

The Hollywood Reporter

Jun 9

This Sliding Doors-style thought experiment is too tidy to provoke much feeling, rendering universal concepts like “fate” and “purpose” and “love” into abstractions rather than the stuff of life.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Jun 21

Next Life copies the 'one woman with two destinies' concept of 1998's Sliding Doors (a much better film) in this pleasant but predictable comedy/drama about a woman who chooses between a businessman and a musician to be her love partner.

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Martin Tsai

AwardsWatch

Jun 13

C+

For all its talk of alternate futures and roads not taken, the film advances the conversation about women’s romantic and professional possibilities by scarcely a millimeter.

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Pete Hammond

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Jun 9

What Doremus has done though, is to make his own thing with a similar concept, a film greatly enhanced by the lilting presence of Clarke, who is wonderful in this role(s), showing us the glory of fate, and its price.

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Joey Magidson

Awards Radar

Jun 9

3/4

Next Life is another romantic drama with big feelings from Drake Doremus.

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Synopsis

In modern London's jazz world, Ivy discovers alternate realities where her romantic path takes unexpected turns, forcing her to question which life and love she truly desires.

Director: Drake Doremus
Producer: Kate Buckley, Emilia Clarke, Drake Doremus, Gleb Fetisov
Screenwriter: Drake Doremus
Production Co: 42
Genre: Romance, Drama, Music
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 52m