Sugar-baby stories themselves, however, need to evolve to reflect the reality of who and what real sugar babies are.

| Mar 11, 2021

A promising feature debut from Stone who, as director and co-writer, that both embraces and rejects the typical romantic comedy formula.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

The New Romantic relies too much on rom-com clichés, even when it's trying to subvert them. It's not a bad movie. It's just confused and oversimplified, failing to provide any unique insight into the complexities of contemporary romance.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 30, 2019

Carly Stone's feature directorial debut The New Romantic pays homage to classic love stories by exploring its protagonist's passion for idealized Hollywood romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2019

Written and directed by Carly Stone, The New Romantic is both hilarious and heartbreaking in its authenticity, with Barden showcasing tremendous vulnerability and painting a genuinely convincing portrait of an ambitious girl with a story to tell.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 9, 2019

Cannot decide if it wants to be a smutty sitcom or a terrible made-for-온라인카지노추천 movie torn from last year's headlines and winds up coming across as a mashup of both.

| Feb 7, 2019

The New Romantic (the debut feature of writer-director Carly Stone) is too slight, both in terms of theme and general characterization, to match up to Barden's performance (which will probably not get the attention it deserves).

| Jan 3, 2019

Carly Stone, a first-time writer-director, introduces a startling degree of pain yet lacks the willingness to fully reckon with it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 20, 2018

The New Romantic suggests, how ever you package it, there's a possibility all our wanderings might still come back to love. Maybe it speaks to some of the deepest longings of our heart.

| Nov 17, 2018

The New Romantic follows a very familiar arc, but the path is certainly a pleasant one, thanks to Barden's naturally ebullient performance.

| Nov 13, 2018

Hinting at contemporary relationship insight without offering any meaningful substance, this breezy romantic comedy is only sporadically engaging.

| Nov 9, 2018

The New Romantic is, in many aspects, an old romantic in that capital-R way. A glorification of a past age thought to be lost... Neither she nor the plot quite reach the sublime, but the film is enjoyable nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2018

Mirroring its green protagonist, "The New Romantic" presents an image of sophistication while playing with ideas that are out of its depth.

| Nov 9, 2018

It's trying to be a romcom without actually being a rom-com and this prevents it from fully developing any of its characters, the attempted romance between Blake and Jacob, and fleshing out what it's trying to say with more certainty.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 9, 2018

A somewhat palatable quasi-rom-com that declares the death of contemporary romance from the get-go, only to try and resurrect it later.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2018

... an absolutely refreshing take on a rom-com/coming-of-age story ...

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

This Canadian Nora Ephron-like rom-com aspires to explore the meaning of love but misses the target because it's not on point about carrying through on its cynicism.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 6, 2018

Clever writing and a solid lead actor will only take you so far, but that might just be far enough for this lighthearted feature.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2018

The New Romantic mixes prickly comedy with incisive character moments, fully aware of the disconnect between Blake's impossible expectations and the lives of everyone else around her.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2018

The waif-like Barden is splendid in the central role, using her expressive eyes in the subtlest of ways to convey emotions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2018