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Chemical Hearts
Directed by
Richard Tanne
R
2020
1h 33m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Romance](/on-demand/category/romance)
6.3
60%
68%
7.3
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A teenage boy falls in love with a troubled girl who transfers to his high school.
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Chemical Hearts Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Lili Reinhart is good, but it's Austin Abrams who stands out playing a likeable and real character.
Irving Television
Susan Kamyab
I have a feeling the book is better than the movie.
Critically Acclaimed Podcast
Witney Seibold
A fitfully effective teen melodrama that ultimately focuses on the wrong person. Why should I care about the young man in love with a young woman, when then young woman's story is so much more interesting?
Thirty, Flirty + Film
Cate Young
Part of what makes the teens years so fertile for storytelling is that they're a natural site of evolution. Teenagers are literally changing while the narratives around them metaphorically follow suit.
The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Mark Meszoros
This is a tale that knows how to hit you right in the feels.
CultureMap
Alex Bentley
Romance tinged with tragedy is a staple of young adult movies in recent years, and Chemical Hearts fits in with the best of them. It never tries to be much more than what it needs to be, delivering a story that touches the heart in multiple ways.
Next Best Picture
Nicole Ackman
[I]n trying to make a profound statement, it seems to struggle with its tone and its characters.
KOMO News (Seattle)
Candice McMillan
If your bad poetry from high school about unrequited love was made into a film, it would be Chemical Hearts, an angsty young adult mope fest that beats the cliches of teenage soap operas to a plaid-wearing, meet-in-an-abandoned-factory pulp.
Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam
Charles Koplinski
"Chemical Hearts" flatlines on all levels of storytelling.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Tanne... also hits the physiological explanation of the pain of heartbreak (from which the book and movie draw their titles) pretty hard.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
The film's strength is the way it respectfully handles that transitional period and the strange chemical makeup of the teenage experience.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
For a story that leans so hard into (and sometimes gently pushes back against) the most cringe-worthy tropes of its genre, "Chemical Hearts" has an uncanny way of capturing the basic combustibility of teenage feelings.
Arizona Republic
Shaena Montanari
"Chemical Hearts" may be over-the-top melancholy at times, but also provides a raw, honest look at grief, love and the adolescent psyche.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
There's much to be said for what Tanne has pulled off in Chemical Hearts, for his gentle and measured approach. You actually feel like you have been through something by the end.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Chemical Hearts... invites you to relive the trauma of teen romance, and don't be surprised if you get sucked right in.
New York Times
Natalia Winkelman
Despite the movie's sympathy for the high stakes of Henry's adolescence, the myopia of his point of view settles over "Chemical Hearts" like a layer of grime.
Variety
Guy Lodge
For all its serious-faced surface grit, "Chemical Hearts" never quite rings true.
The Hollywood Reporter
Caryn James
Writer and director Richard Tanne takes what sounds like a terrible idea and transforms it into a sleek, well-played romance that largely makes the cliches believable.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
What makes "Chemical Hearts" so good is it's unafraid of its feelings. It tackles complicated emotional issues such as depression, suicide, sex and love with a straightforward honesty.
Pay or Wait
Robert Daniels
Chemical Heart... is a YA Romance that follows familiar tropey veins for introspective resonance.
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