An artfully made film that has a lot more on its mind than your average teen film.

| Feb 13, 2024

A tomato is also a fruit.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

It feels soft and bright like a love story should.

| Sep 15, 2021

Heavy on the dialogue, it proceeds at an unhurried pace building toward romantic moments geared to make teen's hearts beat a little faster.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The Sun Is Also a Star is neither a complete failure nor a total success, but as someone who considers even a partial victory in the realm of romance films a win, I'll take this marginally likable work.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2020

The pacing can be quick, but overall this film will warm the heart of any hopeless romantic.

| Feb 19, 2020

There's not much to get excited about here in an Instagram vision of love you'll quickly want to forget.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 6, 2020

The filmmakers have made somewhat hokey, unbelievable material into something thoughtful and artful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2019

Pretty, potential-filled, and ultimately a let-down.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2019

The Sun Is Also a Star is undeniably saccharine and yet is not without its charms. It tries to explore aspects of modern racial conflict and cultural assimilation, but by keeping its focus on the romance, Star loses most of the power it possesses.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 20, 2019

Yes, it's both too bad and too good to be true, but there could be no better time for such fantasies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2019

Sure, Tracy Oliver's screenplay is simplistic and gee-whizz-earnest but so what, Ry Russo-Young directs with admirable skill and sensitivity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2019

'What if I told you I could make you fall in love with me, scientifically?' Daniel proposes to a skeptical Natasha. As chat-up lines go, it's out there, but this is a story that isn't afraid of a leap of logic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 6, 2019

There are flaws that need to be overlooked, but Russo-Young's valentine to young love deserves to draw a bigger crowd... appealing as it does to romantics of all races and ages.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2019

It's a visually-pleasing, intriguing film that far exceeds Yoon's cringe-inducing 2017 adaptation Everything, Everything.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2019

...Russo-Young can't set her hooks into much beyond the postcard images of the Big Apple.

| Jul 26, 2019

Yara Shahidi is not only physically striking but she is emotionally adept at taking on this challenging role.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 3, 2019

Unfortunately, this astrology-themed showcase of challenged love between a female cynic and male poetic spirit loses its mushy translation in the cosmos.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 11, 2019

Russo-Young loses her way in charming jokes and exaggerated dialogues. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2019

The narrative is as two-dimensional and tired as a Hallmark card penned by a checked-out writer who gave up coffee for Lent.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019