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Finding Emily<\/p>\n
Courtesy of Focus Features<\/p>\n
There are many new movies hitting theaters this weekend, from The Dog Stars to Coyote vs. Acme. The former is reviewing poorly <\/a>on Rotten Tomatoes while Coyote vs. Acme is doing phenomenally.<\/a> But now, somehow, a movie that same weekend is matching Coyote\u2019s score.<\/p>\n The film is Finding Emily, a romantic comedy that has just set a Rotten Tomatoes record. As in, it is far and away the highest-scored romantic comedy of 2026 with a 95% Rotten Tomatoes review score<\/a>, matching Coyote vs. Acme. That also makes it one of the best-reviewed movies of the entire year, in addition to its record score for the genre itself. Here\u2019s where it lands on the list of the best-reviewed movies of the year on Rotten Tomatoes:<\/p>\n The Furious \u2013 98% critic scoreThe Invite \u2013 97% critic scoreFinding Emily \u2013 95% critic scoreCoyote vs. Acme \u2013 95% critic scoreProject Hail Mary \u2013 95% critic scoreThe Sheep Detectives \u2013 95% critic scoreTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma \u2013 95% critic scoreThe Odyssey \u2013 94% critic scoreIt Ends \u2013 94% critic scoreHoppers \u2013 94% critic scoreToy Story 5 \u2013 93% critic scoreObsession \u2013 93% critic score<\/p>\n Finding Emily<\/p>\n Rotten Tomatoes<\/p>\n There may be some debate over whether or not you can consider The Invite a romantic comedy. A comedy? Yes. Romantic? Well, not even close to that in the traditional sense, so I would consider Finding Emily the only true romance on here (uh, I don\u2019t think Obsession counts).<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the synopsis of Finding Emily, which didn\u2019t have any sort of wild standout trailer or anything, but clearly it works:<\/p>\n \u201cWhen a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n The idea here is that the musician is after a girl named \u201cEmily\u201d that he can no longer find, and goes through every Emily he can locate in order to try to reunite with her. Of course, the implication is that he may fall for an entirely different Emily helping him on his search.<\/p>\n The main cast is not terribly well known. Spike Fearn is the musician, Owen, who played a supporting character in Alien: Romulus and is listed as \u201cVandal\u201d in The Batman. Angourie Rice, the featured Emily, may look a bit more familiar to you. She plays high school newscaster Betty in the MCU Spider-Man movies. Further back, she also played Ryan Gosling\u2019s daughter in the supremely underrated The Nice Guys. But this is likely the biggest role for both actors. Surprisingly, the film, directed by Alicia MacDonald and written by Rachel Hirons, is not based on a book, as these types of films often are.<\/p>\n Box office projections for Finding Emily are pretty low for the weekend. It has to contend with long-tail hits Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey. Opening this weekend, as mentioned, are The Dog Stars and Coyote vs. Acme, both estimated to have double-digit hauls. There are also a pair of horror movies, It Ends and Buddy, going wide. Finding Emily may be a rare example of a movie that may have done better if released on a major streaming service, but we\u2019ll see. These reviews and potential word-of-mouth may really expand its reach over time.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>,<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series<\/a> and The Earthborn Trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n