Colleen Hoover’s extremely popular books have plots chock-full of improbable interpersonal situations that make people say things like “this is bonkers!” or “this is psychotic!” Now, another one of these bestsellers—2019’s Regretting You —has come to the big screen, attempting to repeat the success of last year’s adaptation of It Ends With Us . It’s got viewers who wouldn’t touch one of her many blockbuster romance novels and thrillers hate-watching and scoffing once again. “As a non book reader I just have to ask Is Colleen Hoover insane?” reads, in its entirety, the most liked Letterboxd review of this new film.

As an arms-length Hoover reader, I can testify that the sometime “queen of BookTok” may be bonkers, but she does labor to have her characters rise to the occasion, cha

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