Finding Emily
Courtesy of Focus Features
There are galore caller movies hitting theaters this weekend, from The Dog Stars to Coyote vs. Acme. The erstwhile is reviewing poorly on Rotten Tomatoes while Coyote vs. Acme is doing phenomenally. But now, somehow, a movie that aforesaid play is matching Coyote’s score.
The movie is Finding Emily, a romanticist drama that has conscionable group a Rotten Tomatoes record. As in, it is acold and distant the highest-scored romanticist drama of 2026 pinch a 95% Rotten Tomatoes reappraisal score, matching Coyote vs. Acme. That besides makes it 1 of the best-reviewed movies of the full year, successful summation to its grounds people for the genre itself. Here’s wherever it lands connected the database of the best-reviewed movies of the twelvemonth connected Rotten Tomatoes:
- The Furious – 98% professional score
- The Invite – 97% professional score
- Finding Emily – 95% professional score
- Coyote vs. Acme – 95% professional score
- Project Hail Mary – 95% professional score
- The Sheep Detectives – 95% professional score
- Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma – 95% professional score
- The Odyssey – 94% professional score
- It Ends – 94% professional score
- Hoppers – 94% professional score
- Toy Story 5 – 93% professional score
- Obsession – 93% professional score
Finding Emily
Rotten Tomatoes
There whitethorn beryllium immoderate statement complete whether aliases not you tin see The Invite a romanticist comedy. A comedy? Yes. Romantic? Well, not moreover adjacent to that successful the accepted sense, truthful I would consider Finding Emily the only existent romance connected present (uh, I don’t deliberation Obsession counts).
Here’s the synopsis of Finding Emily, which didn’t person immoderate benignant of chaotic standout trailer aliases anything, but intelligibly it works:
“When a lovesick musician is fixed the incorrect number for his dream girl, he teams up pinch a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their ain hearts and ambitions on the way.”
The thought present is that the musician is aft a woman named “Emily” that he tin nary longer find, and goes done each Emily he tin find successful bid to effort to reunite pinch her. Of course, the accusation is that he whitethorn autumn for an wholly different Emily helping him connected his search.
The main formed is not terribly good known. Spike Fearn is the musician, Owen, who played a supporting characteristic in Alien: Romulus and is listed arsenic “Vandal” successful The Batman. Angourie Rice, the featured Emily, whitethorn look a spot much acquainted to you. She plays precocious schoolhouse newscaster Betty successful the MCU Spider-Man movies. Further back, she besides played Ryan Gosling’s girl successful the supremely underrated The Nice Guys. But this is apt the biggest domiciled for some actors. Surprisingly, the film, directed by Alicia MacDonald and written by Rachel Hirons, is not based connected a book, arsenic these types of films often are.
Box agency projections for Finding Emily are beautiful debased for the weekend. It has to contend pinch long-tail hits Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey. Opening this weekend, arsenic mentioned, are The Dog Stars and Coyote vs. Acme, some estimated to person double-digit hauls. There are besides a brace of scary movies, It Ends and Buddy, going wide. Finding Emily may beryllium a uncommon illustration of a movie that whitethorn person done amended if released connected a awesome streaming service, but we’ll see. These reviews and imaginable word-of-mouth whitethorn really grow its scope complete time.
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