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There’s something about Laura Sharp and Simon Tavistock. Close friends since college, they share jokes that no one else understands and instinctively know how to make the other feel better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s the deal with you two?\u201d a woman asks Simon after watching them interact. \u201cWe\u2019re like BFFs,\u201d he responds, which is true and also not completely true. What if these BFFs were really meant to be lovers?<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of You\u201d from Apple TV+ walks carefully into this age-old premise, sweetly and with more honesty than typical Hollywood fare. It’s messy and romantic and both deeply sad and deeply soulful.<\/p>\n
Brett Goldstein<\/a> and Imogen Poots star in this very British drama-rom-com that asks questions about destiny, regret and happily-ever-after love. Goldstein, the gruff \u201cTed Lasso\u201d<\/a> star, is slightly less gruff here, but pulls off the yearning. Poots is revelatory \u2014 girlish one moment, anguished the next.<\/p>\n Written by Goldstein and William Bridges, \u201cAll of You\u201d starts with Poots’ Laura signing up to take a compatibility test that will find her soulmate. Goldstein’s Simon accompanies her, worried that she’ll find true love and then immediately start ignoring her friends. \u201cIt\u2019ll be the end of everything,\u201d he moans.<\/p>\n She does find her soulmate and he’s really perfect \u2014 but he’s not Simon. He’s another guy (Steven Cree), a sweetheart who becomes her husband and with whom they have a daughter. He’s almost cartoonishly good. \u201cHis very existence makes me feel guilty,\u201d she admits.<\/p>\n In turns out there is indeed something about Laura Sharp and Simon Tavistock. And one day they can’t deny it to each other.<\/p>\n An affair \u2014 in fits and starts, admittedly, with some panic attacks thrown in \u2014 begins. Cue montage of walks through fields holding hands and steamy sex. It goes on for years until it isn’t enough for Simon. \u201cAll I want is to be with you through all of it,\u201d he tells her. \u201cI don’t know how to love anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n Bridges, who also directs, has a loose hand, letting scenes breathe in silence and allowing the actors to sneak meaningful glances at each other. Transitions between scenes are excellent \u2014 a car door closes in the darkness and another opens in daylight. But it\u2019s not always clear how much time has passed between the moments. Is it the next day? Or four years?<\/p>\n \u201cAll of You\u201d is a sort of second stab at this story, which Goldstein and Bridges (\u201cBlack Mirror\u201d) first explored in the canceled-too-soon AMC anthology series \u201cSoulmates.\u201d Fittingly for a story about second chances, this time it sticks.<\/p>\n We’re rooting for this star-crossed couple even though the ache they will leave behind is palpable. There is this overwhelming lustful urge but also responsibilities, the heart versus the head. \u201cWe hurt people and they don\u2019t even know that we\u2019re doing it to them,\u201d Laura says. To make it all hurt the more, Laura is held up as a reason the soulmate test works.<\/p>\n Goldstein makes a good stab and showing he can be a leading man \u2014 and also write a gentle, human romance \u2014 and Poots is a revelation in showing raw emotion. The two have a natural chemistry tied by his humor and her laughter is genuine and touching.<\/p>\n There are funny bits, to be sure, but our advice is to have a box of tissues on hand. Someone onscreen is going to get really badly hurt by the end and be in tears \u2014 and likely so will you.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of You,\u201d an Apple TV+ release that hits the streamer Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for sexual content\/some nudity, language and brief drug use. Running time: 99 minutes. Three stars out of four.<\/p>\n Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s something about Laura Sharp and Simon Tavistock. 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