FILM

Regretting You ★★

(M) 116 minutes

American novelist Colleen Hoover is a publishing phenomenon. Copious proof of her books’ popularity can be found online where her fans obsessively analyse her plotlines, her characters’ motivations and the fans’ need for “closure” – Hoover-speak for a satisfying conclusion.

CoHorts, as her readers are known, turned out in force last year for the first Hoover screen adaptation, It Ends with Us , an incompatible mingling of erotic cliché and domestic abuse starring Blake Lively and the film’s director, Justin Baldoni, as her equally glamorous abuser.

The latest one, Regretting You , is less controversial but once again there’s grit in the syrup and grief, infidelity and fractious family relationships shape the many obstacles on the way to a ha

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