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The Hating Game

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Based on the best-selling book, THE HATING GAME tells the story of ambitious good girl Lucy Hutton and her cold, efficient work nemesis, Joshua Templeton. Committed to achieving professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy ultimately embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against Josh, a rivalry that is increasingly complicated by her mounting attraction to him.
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The Hating Game's dismayingly retrograde approach to the battle of the sexes is often offset by the sparkling chemistry between its well-matched leads.

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Leslie Felperin Guardian 08/08/2022
2/5
About as bland and as easily consumed as a cone of soft-serve ice-cream on a hot day. Go to Full Review
Stephen Romei The Australian 02/01/2022
3/5
There are some decent twists, especially when we learn of Joshua's family history, and the chemistry between the two starsripples with possibility. Go to Full Review
Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) 01/28/2022
2/5
It's a familiar but perfectly viable starting point, in a genre where what matters isn't the premise so much as what you do with it. But director Peter Hutchings and writer Christina Mengert have no ambitions to take us anywhere new. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 04/27/2024
1/4
...tedious and uninvolving... Go to Full Review
Gissane Sophia Lady Geeks Media 02/04/2024
3/5
If you’re a fan of romantic comedies, then The Hating Game is easy to love. Go to Full Review
Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) 11/18/2022
The first half hour dreadfully introduces its protagonists... However, as the unresolved sexual tension initially builds up into heat and evolves into true love and the beginning of a relationship, the story improves. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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KaitlinF 12/10/2021 I am a huge fan of the book and had high expectations going into the movie. They captured their relationship and overall storyline of the book beautifully. Lucy and Josh had great chemistry. Can't wait to watch it again! See more Hannah M. @Mezzadri Nov 14 Best movie ever. Obsessed. See more Kae @Kae2167 Nov 13 Disclaimer: I never read the book. This also has spoilers. Main takeaway: The characters were immature and corny. The acting was bad, there was no tension to add to the plot, and it was cringy, uncomfortable and hard to watch. …………….. For a rated R movie, this is incredibly immature and corny. I’m pretty picky about movies, but more about the acting than the plot. If I can tell it’s two actors playing pretend, it’s honestly hard to watch. A great movie doesn’t only have an intriguing plot, but tension and emotion that you can get invested in. This movie is NOT THAT. This just feels unnatural and the music distracts from a lot of scenes where tension needed to be built, especially earlier in the movie. The acting is bad (nothing against the actors, just my opinion). To start out, when she has the dream about him, I was expecting her to feel a little tension and awkwardness. But she literally acts so unrealistically awkward and dramatic. Then not only does she tell him she had an erotic dream, she goes on to tell him the details almost completely unsolicited. After “hating” him now she’s suddenly trying to seduce him because of one dream? It’s honestly so cringy and uncomfortable that I could hardly even watch. Then when they kiss in the elevator, it’s annoying because there was no tension built up, it feels rushed and staged. There were a few scenes that seemed genuine, like when he brought her water when she was sick and when he was talking about his father and the planner. Also the rose and juice was cute. Other than that, everything seemed corny, in-genuine, and immature. Also lucy seems so desperate and i was getting whiplash from how quick she would go from one extreme emotion to the other. The entire movie was immature, like using Danny just to see if she likes Joshua, and Joshua telling her to do that, is such high school drama. After reading other reviews, I feel like this movie had potential but was just poorly executed. How they talk about Joshua’s character sounds like it would’ve been so much better than what is in the movie and would’ve actually created tension instead of just teasing. In the movie, I didn’t really like his character because it felt so surface level and like acting. I get he never actually hated her, but I feel like why even say they did and do all the theatrical fighting if they both liked each other all along. I respect that many people loved this movie, this one just personally wasn’t for me. See more Danielle E Aug 18 This film was surprising, endearing and beautifully written. It's a romcom so of course there was some predictability, but I found myself completely surprised by the twists and turns of Lucy and Joshua's path! A true feel good, lovely story. See more Sia T. @siatrivedi Aug 17 the premise of the movie is so good, but its so bad. everything feels so forced its hard to watch, their chemistry was barely established before they had their main moment and then after that it was 0 to 100 for no reason. every moment of this movie had me extremely confused, especially the subplots but even more so the main plotline. Love the actors, maybe they were just given a bad script? mind you I was halfway through the movie, twenty minutes further its even worse See more rotem k Jul 15 Enemies to lovers!! its a good movie. worth a watch See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Based on the best-selling book, THE HATING GAME tells the story of ambitious good girl Lucy Hutton and her cold, efficient work nemesis, Joshua Templeton. Committed to achieving professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy ultimately embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against Josh, a rivalry that is increasingly complicated by her mounting attraction to him.
Director
Peter Hutchings
Producer
Brice Dal Farra, Claude Dal Farra, Santosh Govindaraju, Brian Keady, Dan Reardon
Screenwriter
Christina Mengert
Distributor
Vertical Entertainment
Production Co
BCDF Pictures, Convergent Media.
Rating
R (Some Sexual Content|Language)
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 10, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 10, 2021
Runtime
1h 42m
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