I’m not going to be trite and say there are two kinds of people in this world; there are many kinds of people in this world, obviously. Many of them are lovely. An increasingly terrifying number of them suck. For the purposes of this review, however, we’re going to sort humanity into two camps: people who like concept-heavy inspirational stories that serve as a metaphor for life (the ones who made Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library a bestseller) and people who don’t (people like me, who read The Midnight Library for a book club, and would otherwise never have picked it up).

How you respond to A Big Bold Beautiful Journey may align with which camp you fall into. Like other stories of its ilk, the Kogonada-directed, Seth Reiss-scripted romantic drama is light on character, and smooths out the

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