‘Splitsville’ Is the Shocking Romantic Comedy of the Summer

Desire is a catalyst for disaster in Splitsville, a romantic comedy that tears down, and then builds back up, its intertwined characters to amusingly penetrating effect.

For their follow-up to 2019’s The Climb, writer/director Michael Angelo Covino and co-writer/co-star Kyle Marvin trace the twisted interplay of love, lust, unhappiness, and contentment via the story of two couples whose tight-knit relationships—with their partners, and each other—are upended by a longing for freedom and, then, the decision to act upon that feeling.

(The film is in select theaters Aug. 22 and goes nationwide Sept. 5.)

With Covino and Marvin perfectly paired with Dakota Johnson and Adriana Arjona, it’s a fleet and funny look at destruction as the path to creation—or, as a young boy opines at its conclus