Review: ‘Regretting You’ Adapts Colleen Hoover as… an AMC Theaters Ad?

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The best and worst moment of Regretting You , the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation , is perhaps the very first one. A nondescript car cruises down a nondescript road with The Killers’ “When You Were Young” blaring through the speakers (a radio DJ announces it’s a new single, to place the action solidly in 2006). As a Zillennial, that song has a direct line to my feelings, regardless of context.

The action only stays in 2006 long enough introduce our central characters and set up the major conflicts as economically as possible: there’s parentified eldest daughter Morgan (Allison Williams), her free-spirited younger sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald), Morgan’s boyfriend Chris (

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