The In Between

Name: The In Between
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance
Released: February 11, 2022
Duration: 115 min
Cast: Anna Stadler, April Parker Jones, Celeste O'Connor, Curt Cloninger, Diany Rodriguez

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): February 11, 2022 | PG-13

Starring: Anna Stadler, April Parker Jones, Celeste O'Connor, Curt Cloninger, Diany Rodriguez, Donna Biscoe, Jadon Cal, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Joey King, John Ortiz, Kim Dickens, Kyle Allen, Leander Suleiman

Summary: The In Between is a supernatural love story that centers on a teenage girl, Tessa (Joey King), who, after bouncing around in foster homes for most of her childhood, doesn't believe she deserves her own love story. Everything changes after she has a chance encounter with Skylar (Kyle Allen), a senior from a neighboring town who's a trueThe In Between is a supernatural love story that centers on a teenage girl, Tessa (Joey King), who, after bouncing around in foster homes for most of her childhood, doesn't believe she deserves her own love story. Everything changes after she has a chance encounter with Skylar (Kyle Allen), a senior from a neighboring town who's a true romantic. As her heart begins to open, tragedy strikes when a car accident takes Skylar's life, while Tessa survives. As Tessa searches for answers in the aftermath of the accident, she soon believes Skylar is attempting to reconnect with her from the afterworld. With the help of her best friend and a newfound belief that love never dies, Tessa attempts to contact Skylar one last time, in order to give their love story the epic ending it deserves. [Paramount+]… Expand

Director: Arie Posin

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 115 min

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Rene Rodriguez

Feb 12, 2022

The movie is at its best during the flashback scenes detailing their genuinely tender romance. It fares less well when they are separated and inhabit different realms. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Feb 11, 2022

Caught in between a love story and a ghost story, the film accidentally disproves the very epigraph that opens it — “Every love story is a ghost story” — because this is one that fails to haunt or to hurt. Read full review

Lena Wilson

Feb 11, 2022

This mawkish plot might be tolerable if its characters were more likable; instead, they are pretension personified. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Feb 12, 2022

Why was it decided to make this movie so long? I really don't know.
If anything this movie could have used a good trimming in the editing room.
Reading the synopsis I was interested in seeing it, not because its plot twist was anything out of the ordinary, but because I thought it mightWhy was it decided to make this movie so long? I really don't know.
If anything this movie could have used a good trimming in the editing room.

Reading the synopsis I was interested in seeing it, not because its plot twist was anything out of the ordinary, but because I thought it might have something to salvage.
Unfortunately the mix of romance and sci-fi doesn't work the way I personally think its makers thought it would.

In fact The In Between has a problem that bothered me a lot, because it ended up being a tremendously wasted narrative resource.
I'm talking about what the plot was proposing because it could have had a much more serious twist. Not sinister by any means, but it really could have evoked something genuinely emotional, instead of wasting it all on a story too cheesy not to feel the cringe in too many of its sequences.… Expand

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Apr 16, 2022

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pabloretana

Feb 22, 2022

Tessa goes to a movie house to watch a foreign film only to find out there are no subtitles. She complains to the projectionist and gets no answer (no surprise there since she couldn’t even be bothered to stand up from her seat). Skylar, the only other member of the audience, decides to getTessa goes to a movie house to watch a foreign film only to find out there are no subtitles. She complains to the projectionist and gets no answer (no surprise there since she couldn’t even be bothered to stand up from her seat). Skylar, the only other member of the audience, decides to get up from his and sit next to Tessa. “You watch. I'll translate”, he says. (Supposedly) three hours later (at the end of which his voice isn’t the least bit hoarse), she is bawling and clutching his hand (later on she will say that “I remember every word that he said to me”, which presumably means she has committed to memory the entire dialogue of a three-hour long French movie). It's like, how much more contrived could this meet cute be? And the answer is none. None more contrived. But then this is a very contrived movie; it opens with “a very bad car accident” involving Tessa, who is informed by a doctor that “You ruptured your heart due to trauma”. In other words, her heart literally broke. Awww. Well, what can you expect of a movie so unsubtle that it includes a scene of the leads kissing while fireworks go off in the sky above them? The film has an annoying habit of showing us know how many days before the accident everytime it flashbacks. This information is as arbitrary as it is useless – except for letting us know that there have elapsed, give or take, 80 days between Tessa’s and Skylar’s first encounter and the second. This second meeting, mind you, is pure happenstance, and yet she takes advantage of the opportunity to return Skylar’s cap which he had left at the theater. Soooo, are we meant to believe that she’s been carrying this particular item of headwear around with her everywhere she goes for almost three months? Contrived, I tells ya. It’s no spoiler to say that Skylar dies in the accidente because that’s the whole point of the movie – yes, this is yet another entry in the interminable list of films which, to paraphrase Roger Ebert, assume that even after death we devote most of our attention to unfinished business here on Earth, and a loved one left behind is more important to a ghost than the infinity it now inhabits. In this case, Skylar is spending his after hours “in the in-between. But he won't be there for long, a few weeks at most. And when he moves on... he's gone for good.” First of all, good to know time is still measured in weeks – and by extension in days, hours, etc. – in the great beyond. Second, Tessa is revealed these insights by Doris, who writes books on the afterlife; how she, never having been there, knows all this, is a matter left to speculation.… Expand

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