Rosaline (2022)  review

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“Rosaline” is a fresh and comedic twist on Shakespeare’s classic love story “Romeo & Juliet,” told from the perspective of Juliet’s cousin Rosaline (Kaitlyn Dever),

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Rosaline (Kaitlyn Dever), who also happens to be Romeo’s recent love interest. Heartbroken when Romeo (Kyle Allen) meets Juliet (Isabela Merced) and begins to pursue her, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy.

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The cast looks like they are having a blast. film with Isabela Merced or Kaitlyn Dever,

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Chief Karen Maine's new satire, Rosaline, stays at work past 40 hours to track down another viewpoint in one of the most notable accounts ever.

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Maine's film doesn't put its attention on both of that play's eponymous, star-crossed darlings, however, yet rather on the one who had initially caught youthful Romeo's heart before he set his eyes interestingly on her cousin, Juliet.

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In Shakespeare's play, Rosaline is referenced regularly however never given a genuine line of discourse. Here, the person is reconsidered as a reckless and decided young lady who declines to acknowledge Romeo's shift in perspective basically

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All things being equal, she embarks to win him back through any means vital. The film, at the end of the day, endeavors to construct a genuinely normal romantic comedy plot out of the most notable romantic tale ever.

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Rosaline, surprisingly, generally prevails at doing as such, thanks to a great extent to the red hot and magnetic exhibition given by its young lead.

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At the point when Rosaline starts, things are going great for its eponymous youthful champion (played here by Booksmart star Kaitlyn Dever)

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While her dad (an adorably crabby Bradley Whitford) stays committed toward the beginning of the film to compelling her into an organized marriage with one of Verona's numerous well off men, . 

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Rosaline's fantasy about taking off with Romeo is run, notwithstanding, when she understands one night that he has abandoned his relationship with her for another sentiment with her wonderful youthful cousin, Juliet (Isabela Merced).

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While the film itself could stand to shed a few of its 96 minutes, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber’s script finds plenty of room for moments of genuine comedy and romance 

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Not all of Rosaline‘s comic swings work, including one recurring gag involving an unreliable, perpetually stoned courier named Steve (Nico Hiraga).

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he film’s misses never end up outweighing its hits, though, and that’s largely due to how well-cast Rosaline‘s ensemble is. 

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Rosaline is, in other words, a perfectly fine new take on Shakespeare’s most iconic love story.