Movie Review: The Love Hypothesis

The Love Hypothesis by Sarah Rothschild Based on the book by Ali Hazelwood TW: sexual harassment, use of lab animals (not shown suffering) Highlight to read. Lara: I have a theory that having been raised on rom-coms of the 90s and 2000s, I find it exceptionally difficult for a contemporary rom-com to meet all my expectations. I want wit and charm and swooning and that delicious warm feeling of falling in love. I get this feeling from loads of books, maybe because for me books are more immersive than film or TV. I say all this because I think my expectations of contemporary rom-coms are unreasonably high. That giant disclaimer out the way, I did really enjoy The Love Hypothesis. I read the book back in 2021 and reviewed it for the site. I landed on a B-. Most of the time, I prefer the book to the film so I anticipated giving the film around a C. But I didn’t! It was solidly in the B territory too, but for different reasons! Carrie: I went into this without knowing anything about The Love Hypothesis ( A | BN | K ) except that it was by Ali Hazelwood. Here’s a quick description of the plot: Olive Smith is a PhD student at Stanford University who becomes besties with fellow student Anh...