...tedious and uninvolving...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 27, 2024

If you’re a fan of romantic comedies, then The Hating Game is easy to love.

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

Fans of the book will appreciate how true the adaptation stays to its source material, and those new to the story will hopefully appreciate its character quirks and workplace rivalry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2023

The first half hour dreadfully introduces its protagonists... However, as the unresolved sexual tension initially builds up into heat and evolves into true love and the beginning of a relationship, the story improves. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 18, 2022

The obvious chemistry of two good-looking leads like Hale and Stowell, helps to better digest a relationship with little suspense and sparkling dialogues, taken from a rereading of the screwball comedy in a Starbucks. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2022

About as bland and as easily consumed as a cone of soft-serve ice-cream on a hot day.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2022

Few romantic comedies are as obnoxiously erratic.

| Original Score: D+ | May 16, 2022

The Hating Game is uneven, the rom edging out the com for better or worse. But its two leads offer enough allure to merit a watch.

| Apr 12, 2022

There are some decent twists, especially when we learn of Joshua's family history, and the chemistry between the two starsripples with possibility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2022

All smarm, no charm...Even male chauvinists will recoil at how sexist the film is.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 29, 2022

It's a familiar but perfectly viable starting point, in a genre where what matters isn't the premise so much as what you do with it. But director Peter Hutchings and writer Christina Mengert have no ambitions to take us anywhere new.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2022

It's well written, directed, acted, and possesses all the qualities one looks for in such entertainment. It is a great flick for the holidays.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 28, 2022

The leads have fabulous chemistry, the toe-tapping soundtrack includes our own Benee's Glitter, and it boasts some terrifically acerbic, barbed and sarcastic dialogue.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2022

It's the genuine heart buried beneath the rapid-fire dialogue along with the charisma and electricity between the film's two leads that make The Hating Game one worth playing.

| Original Score: 14/20 | Jan 27, 2022

Peter Hutchings's The Hating Game, adapted from Sally Thorne's eponymous novel, is filled to the brim with fluffy flirtation and enough sexual tension to cut through it with a knife.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 26, 2022

Fans of the book will love this. Great enemies to lovers romance

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 4, 2022

A harmless, forgettable and predictable rom-com.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 31, 2021

[The Hating Game is] an abomination that tries to be sexy, raunchy, sweet, and spiked, but only succeeds in being abhorrent.

| Dec 21, 2021

Though it may lean into the formulaic methods of the classic rom-com, it has just enough variety and heart to not only entertain but to leave its audience with the cozy "warm and fuzzies" in its wake.

| Dec 17, 2021

The Hating Game is slick and easy to watch, and would fit perfectly in a Netflix content row between similarly pleasant, forgettable rom-coms.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 15, 2021