Regretting You
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 24, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
9
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
USA TodayBrian TruittOct 22, 2025
The flick, based on Hoover’s best-selling novel, lays it on thick alongside a lacking narrative and cringey dialogue. On the plus side, the young acting talent and a welcome lightheartedness will keep the eye-rolling to a minimum. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 24, 2025
There’s a perfectly good melodrama to be made from the plot of Regretting You, which on its surface isn’t so much a twisty-turny soap opera as it is a multicharacter wallow in uncontrolled emotions. It’s how this specific movie presents all the wallowing that made me feel like I was hallucinating. Read full review
50
IndieWireKate ErblandOct 22, 2025
Tucked into the melodrama of Regretting You, there is a sweet story about a mother and daughter trying to figure things out, but the reliance on their outside romances often detracts from it. That’s a shame. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerOct 23, 2025
The best that can be said about the film is that The Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone, well-versed with the teen weepy, sometimes approaches the schlock with a bit of self-deflating slyness—something more attuned to the audience’s eyerolls and the cast’s barely-hidden smirks than to the serious source material. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 12, 2025
Dramatic things keep happening in the love lives of its two central couples, yet handily for Gen-Z viewers who like their protagonists morally spotless, none is responsible for any of it. It sometimes feels as if you’re watching a couple of hours of incredibly bad luck. Read full review
40
EmpireAmon WarmannOct 24, 2025
Solid performances can’t keep this from being a tonally erratic disappointment. Here’s hoping the next Hoover adaptation is a little less regrettable. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanOct 23, 2025
It’s formulaic and predictable, with goofy writing and clumsy editing. The saving grace is the actors, who manage to perform even the most ridiculous lines with a straight face. Read full review
40
The GuardianAdrian HortonOct 23, 2025
Regretting You seems unsure of its own melodrama, and careens between what should be tear-jerking moments of unfathomable grief and too-cutesy romcom fluff like a teen learning stick-shift. Read full review
40
ColliderIsabella SoaresOct 22, 2025
Although the cast does what they can with a script that never cuts deeper than the surface, their performances aren't enough to give Regretting You the emotional resonance expected from a story like this. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeOct 22, 2025
Hoover fans will know that, early on, a catastrophe looks to upset the order. Nothing in the film-making suggests, however, this dilemma will not be tidied away by the time of senior prom. Who would want to live in so dull a fantasy? Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloOct 24, 2025
Josh Boone’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s “Regretting You” is a romantic drama with big emotions and plenty of both romance and drama. But too much of a good thing can be a bad thing, and in the case of “Regretting You,” the narrative buckles under the number of overblown emotional scenes and the commercial interruptions for product placements. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithOct 23, 2025
The decision to have Allison Williams and Dave Franco, both in their late 30s when the film was shot, play their characters as teens may be the most egregious example of Regretting You’s indifference to verisimilitude. Read full review
38
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckOct 22, 2025
There are some sweet kisses (otherwise, it’s very chaste) and some nice declarations of motherly devotion (credit to Williams for doing her best) but the cheese factor is regretfully high. Read full review
30
Next Best PictureGiovanni LagoOct 22, 2025
Regretting You is a baffling romantic drama that reinforces why this genre, despite its loyal audience, has struggled to evolve. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 22, 2025
The line between a good soap opera and a bad soap opera can sometimes be razor-thin. Regretting You walks the line for a while but lands on the wrong side of it. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterRichard LawsonOct 22, 2025
What truly hampers Regretting You is its inescapable unoriginality, its plodding, uninventive, unthoughtful attempts at swoon and heartbreak. Read full review
25
The Travers TakePeter TraversOct 24, 2025
Everyone looks pretty and cries ugly in this glossy, grit-free tearjerker from the bestselling Colleen Hoover that traps the actors in marshmallow and gives soap opera a bad name. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerOct 22, 2025
Badly cast and unevenly acted, “Regretting You” features the least healthy mother-daughter relationship since 1975’s “Grey Gardens.” Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithOct 23, 2025
Thin characterizations, bland acting and a surfeit of bubbly cuteness combine to make a throw-pillow of a movie: It’s soft and decorative without being particularly useful or interesting. Read full review
20
Screen RantGregory NussenOct 22, 2025
Perhaps the lesson of the film is that regret is a waste of emotional bandwidth, but regret is easy to feel when the story is a fumbled as this. Read full review
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