Love, Simon works because it feels like a love letter to a specific queer internet borne of staying up late, sweaty and paranoid, on the family computer.

| Mar 5, 2021

This beguiling romantic comedy offers a fresh take on the familiar premise of a high-schooler trying to fit in.

| Mar 5, 2020

The film is a landmark in LGBTQ representation, but succeeds on its own merits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2018

Sweet and moving as it often manages to be, the film is comfortingly average, in its way - the point of it not to stand out, but fit in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2018

It's highly unlikely you'll read a review of this film that doesn't contain the word "adorable". It's equally unlikely that you'll be able to watch it without grinning from ear to ear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2018

The high school teen romcom is reborn for 2018. Funny, sentimental and smart: John Hughes would be proud.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2018

Despite...strangely misjudged moments, Love, Simon succeeds in navigating most of the pitfalls of the gay coming-of-age narrative and is ultimately moving and genuine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2018

How heartening that a mainstream studio flick could have a gay protagonist. How disappointing that said flick is as twee and anodyne as this.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2018

Love, Simon - I really did.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2018

With its sheer warmth, openness, likability and idealism, Love, Simon won me over.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2018

Sweet, funny and touching.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2018

Simon and his friends are likeable kids and their romantic problems are affectionately explored.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 30, 2018

As a sociological milestone, this is not quite in the Black Panther class, but the difference lies only in the size of the film's financial ambitions.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 27, 2018

Love, Simon is an earnest coming-of-age story, gentle and generous, with a captivating performance from Nick Robinson as the titular Simon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2018

The film is as sweet as bubble-gum-flavored medicine; it arrives as if without cinematic lineage-unburdened by cinema's history of equating gayness with death. It just stops short of producing a picture of gay attraction.

| Mar 21, 2018

How nice it is to see that representation is presented as so normal.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 21, 2018

It's too sanded down to ever truly snag on something like a real, specific, visceral emotion, but it's got the pop-chorus bombast that will get you to some kind of objective sense of fireworks, one way or another.

| Mar 20, 2018

Thanks to a dynamic, emotionally astute script from Berger and Aptaker, that coupled with Berlanti's unobtrusive direction helps make this movie an agreeable revelation I likely couldn't have resisted even if I had wanted to.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2018

As a piece of filmmaking craft, it's competent, if unremarkable...if Love, Simon helps even one gay teen come to terms with their sexuality, in the friendly confines of familiar movie formulas, hey, it was probably worth it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2018

It's a premise that understands a the key takeaways of the closet, which is that sexuality is a valuable piece of intel. It's also a nice springboard for a few valuable life lessons about friendship and integrity, and a handful of strong performances.

| Mar 16, 2018