{"id":2476793,"date":"2026-06-26T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2476793"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:59:44","slug":"voicemails-for-isabelle-review-netflixs-new-rom-com-is-surprisingly-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/voicemails-for-isabelle-review-netflixs-new-rom-com-is-surprisingly-good\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Voicemails for Isabelle&#8217; review: Netflix&#8217;s new rom-com is surprisingly good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F06%2F132231491.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 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Rated TV-14 (sexual content, alcohol use, suggestive jokes, frequent foul language and some comedic violence). On Netflix.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Netflix is giving me rom-com whiplash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On June 5, Jennifer Lopez starred in an execrable one for the streamer called \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/04\/entertainment\/office-romance-review-oh-great-another-lousy-jennifer-lopez-rom-com\/\">Office Romance<\/a>\u201d \u2014 I wonder what that\u2019s about! \u2014 which embarrassingly failed to bring Jenny from the Aughts\u2019 Hollywood heyday back to life.<\/p>\n<p>And then just two weeks later arrived the infinitely better \u201cVoicemails for Isabelle,\u201d a sweet and funny if stalkerish movie that nostalgically harks back to the 2010s and those love-centric films that often came with a heaping scoop of heartache.<\/p>\n<p>Watching Netflix\u2019s tries has been like plucking flower petals: I love them, I love them not, I love them, I love them not.<\/p>\n<p>This one, I like.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Given the rawly emotional tone of \u201cIsabelle,\u201d you\u2019d think it was based on a popular young-adult novel. Yet it\u2019s neither about teens nor adapted from a book. Writer-director Leah McKendrick\u2019s characters are in their twenties and the plot is original. Of course, her movie is also keenly aware that no romance film is ever fully original.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re so dramatic,\u201d says Isabelle (Ciara Bravo), who suffers from cystic fibrosis, to her worried sister Jill when her health deteriorates. \u201cThis is not \u2018A Walk to Remember\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Responds Jill (Zoey Deutch): \u201cBut is it \u2018A Fault in Our Stars\u2019?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair are inseparable best friends and we watch them cutely grow up together from 2010 to 2026 \u2014 jamming out to \u201cDancing On My Own\u201d by Robyn, showing playground bullies who\u2019s boss and starting accidental kitchen fires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Isabelle (Ciara Bravo) dies in the first few minutes of the movie. <span class=\"credit\">DIYAH PERA\/NETFLIX \u00a92026<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As Isabelle\u2019s worsening condition keeps her at home, Jill is able to spread her wings, go to prom and meet boys. Still, the sisters make a habit of ringing each other constantly, so Isabelle can live vicariously through Jill\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<p>When she suddenly dies, a despondent Jill keeps leaving diary-like, frequently hilarious phone messages for her \u2014 unable to cope with the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Only her late sister\u2019s number has, unbeknownst to Jill, been reassigned \u2014 to a stud!\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Wes (Nick Robinson) meets Jill (Zoey Deutch) in an unusual way \u2014 through voicemails that weren\u2019t meant for him. <span class=\"credit\">DIYAH PERA\/NETFLIX \u00a92026<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s Wes (Nick Robinson), an Austin, Texas, businessman who raptly listens to her voicemails like they\u2019re episodes of his favorite soap opera. He becomes so enamored with Jill that he takes a work trip to San Francisco, where she works in the pastry shop of a jackass \u201cTop Chef\u201d contestant (Nick Offerman), and seeks her out. He uses his knowledge of Jill to flirt. That scheme works and they date.<\/p>\n<p>The drama is that smitten Wes, while well intended, neglects to mention to his new girl that he\u2019s been devouring her personal recordings for weeks as if they were a podcast.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s, erm, a little weird. And \u201cVoicemails for Isabelle\u201d shares a bit in common with the Police song \u201cEvery Breath You Take.\u201d It sounds like an easy-listening hit until you pay close attention to the serial-killer lyrics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jill works miserably as a baker for a jerk. <span class=\"credit\">DIYAH PERA\/NETFLIX \u00a92026<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You\u2019ll get over that. Because McKendrick is very careful with the tone of her movie, and impressively circumnavigates creep territory. As the complications and Wes\u2019 guilt pile up, the film successfully argues that he fell for the most vulnerable and honest version of Jill. So what if he did it through textbook invasion of privacy?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This shrewd director knows two truths: Viewers will always give hot people the benefit of the doubt, and the core audience for this flick dreams that some guy who owns a house with a pool will become so obsessively infatuated with them, too.<\/p>\n<p>McKendrick is also lucky to have Deutch, an energetic, idiosyncratic and underrated actress who everybody is finally starting to catch onto. She makes the overly campy bakery scenes, in which Offerman goes full Gordon Ramsay and forces his employees to compete with each other, funnier than they deserve to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Deutch\u2019s energy and charisma make decent scenes funnier. <span class=\"credit\">ALLYSON RIGGS\/NETFLIX \u00a9 2026<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And Deutch\u2019s natural pep, and believable anguish,\u00a0pairs well with Robinson\u2019s relaxed coolness, almost like a touring comedy act. They have a sparky chemistry, which is another reason we choose to forgive Wes\u2019 lies that in real life would make a juicy episode of \u201cMaury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ending scene, which I\u2019m sure many of you will find predictable but I did not, is an immensely satisfying button on a movie made for a night of ugly crying and binge-eating baked goods. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review VOICEMAILS FOR ISABELLE Running time: 118 minutes. Rated TV-14 (sexual content, alcohol use, suggestive jokes, frequent foul language and some comedic violence). On Netflix. 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