‘Regretting You’ Is a Trippy Feast for the Senses

Jolly Ranchers, AMC Theatres, Pepsi products, Stereolab, Lime LaCroix, Coconut LaCroix, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History , the 2025 film Novocaine , Union Square, New York Magazine — what do all these things have in common? They’re all given semi-prominent placement in the margins of Regretting You , Josh Boone’s adaptation of the Colleen Hoover book of the same name. Their inclusion makes the already bizarre film, in theaters now, even more delightful and strange. When did Mckenna Grace’s character Clara find time to see Carousel ? How did they manage to navigate both AMC Theatres and Pepsi products when real AMC-heads know that AMC has freestyle machines that are specifically designed for Coca-Cola products? Are we actually supposed to believe that Allison Williams’s characte