This could easily have become a cynical and manipulative tear-jerker. However, director Michael Showalter nimbly avoids mawkishness in much the same way he did with The Big Sick, and the result is both tongue-in-cheek and touching.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2024

Sure, it’s an amazingly conventional biopic, going through the ups and downs of Michael’s time with Kit. But it’s also increasingly earnest.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 6, 2024

Jim Parsons, in a lead role, truly surprised me with his range. Plus, the film really takes its time ge.tting to all the sadness. You learn to love this couple through their trials and tribulations and it is wildly effective.

| Feb 27, 2024

Spoiler Alert, despite its lackluster direction and oddly generic seriocomedy, beats all the odds to reach a rare level of poignancy for mainstream efforts.

| Aug 6, 2023

Spoiler Alert is a sentimental snapshot of a relationship with an inevitable ending that shares the importance of grasping onto something you love before it leaves you through

| Jul 25, 2023

Great film I cried I laughed I loved how rooted in realism it was and how relatable it was Jim Parsons performance though? Great he can truly lead a movie

| Jul 25, 2023

Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge are pure magic onscreen, with energetic chemistry that rivals any opposite-sex couple depicted in film in recent memory.

| Jul 25, 2023

Adapted from Michael Ausiello's autobiography with warmth and realistic humour, it's directed by Michael Showalter with a terrific sense of authenticity that undercuts the homespun nostalgia and manages to avoid becoming maudlin.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2023

I can see 'Spoiler Alert' showing up on holiday watch lists year after year. I am putting the film on my “rainy day romance” binge list.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 14, 2023

When it gets welcomely thorny — when it feels specific to Ausiello and Cowan's 13-year-relationship, laying bare its early awkwardness and many imperfections — it's a richer movie.

| Feb 24, 2023

'Spoiler Alert' is a film that tells a story of a not-so-perfect relationship that will make you laugh, cry, and feel like you're part of Michael and Kit's life.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 23, 2023

This is an occasionally funny, mostly sweet tearjerker of a film... and most couples will see elements of themselves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2023

Parsons is terrific in a tough role, balancing wit with the gravitas needed as he goes from full-time writer to full-time carer. Matching him is Aldridge who imbues his ailing character with soul-enriching defiance. It’s a beautifully etched performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Sometimes the tone is a little too cute but Showalter and his writers have a persuasive ability to defuse the looming threat of sentimentality with comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Where other movies might indulge glibness or Oscar-clip force, Spoiler Alert opts for subtlety and clarity.

| Feb 7, 2023

It is interesting... but it is super stagey... and very mawkish

| Feb 6, 2023

Michael Showalter is competent enough to make the real-life drama sink in, and the cast is good enough to sell it.

| Jan 15, 2023

I’d say get out the tissues and enjoy this sweet, hopeful love story

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 13, 2023

Beautiful, devastating, and achingly honest, "Spoiler Alert" is a sweet, relatable love story — with an unsurprisingly gut-wrenching ending — about the moments that give our life meaning and the sacrifices we willingly make to pursue that meaning.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2023

In the end it's an effective tearjerker with solid and stable marks across the board (extra points for the supporting cast thanks to Sally Field and Bill Irwin stealing scenes as Kit's parents).

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 6, 2023