{"id":160792,"date":"2025-09-26T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160792\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:34:09","slug":"all-of-you-review-cosy-and-safe-and-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160792\/","title":{"rendered":"All Of You review \u2014 ‘cosy and safe and warm’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best friends Simon (Brett Goldstein) and Laura (Imogen Poots) struggle to navigate their mutual romantic feelings after Laura takes a test that promises to match her to her soulmate.\u202f<\/p>\n

The idea of dating app algorithms eventually finding us a perfect partner is potent and ever-prevalent. Sci-fi shows like Black Mirror<\/a> and Rick And Morty have toyed with the idea that our tech overlords have all the amorous answers\u202f\u2014 cupid\u2019s arrow in a smartphone. Now comes All Of You, a part weepy, part tragicomedy, part adulterous romance, which ponders the same question very lightly but likably. It comes from Brett Goldstein (actor and co-writer) and William Bridges (co-writer and director), the team behind the 2020 anthology series Soulmates, which had essentially the same premise, this feeling like a feature-length episode of that show.<\/p>\n

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Goldstein plays Simon, a character softer and sillier than his Ted Lasso<\/a> Roy Kent persona, albeit still possessing a well-stocked wardrobe of dark-black shirts. We first meet him escorting university BFF Laura (Vivarium<\/a>‘s Imogen Poots) to take \u201cthe test\u201d for a heavily advertised service known as Soul Connex, which promises to scan your eye and \u2014 with methods never fully explained, the filmmakers content to leave the science-fiction a background dressing \u2014 identify your one, true soulmate.<\/p>\n

When the sexy floodgates open it feels real and believable, the pair forging an illicit affair with genuine passion and feeling.<\/p>\n

Goldstein and Poots have an easy, effortless chemistry, assisted by the warm, witty, distinctly British writing. These are the kind of friends who give each other shit, complain about being grown-ups, and affectionately greet each other with, \u201cHello, dickhead!\u201d So strong is their connection, in fact, that it feels quite confusing why these two funny, hot, single people, who clearly enjoy each other\u2019s company, wouldn’t immediately get together. Why even bother taking \u201cthe test\u201d?<\/p>\n

Far from being an intriguing or cannily explored speculative fiction device, \u201cthe test\u201d seems more like a slight contrivance, to delay the inevitable, what everyone except the characters should find obvious. The narrative skips across months and years as Laura does indeed get married to her poor purported soulmate Lukas (an incorrigibly nice Steven Cree), while tension \u2014 sexual and otherwise \u2014 builds between Simon and Laura.<\/p>\n

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When the sexy floodgates open it feels real and believable, the pair forging an illicit affair with genuine passion and feeling. But that initial tension trickles off in the latter half, when further obstacles helpfully wander into view (an office opening in Hong Kong, a job offer in America) and the film seemingly forgets its near-future premise \u2014 not to mention the occasional egregious Americanism (no self-respecting British person would ever use the phrase \u201cparking lot\u201d).<\/p>\n

Still, even if it ends soapier than it starts, Goldstein and Poots are extremely watchable leads throughout: utterly charming, charismatic and kind. Theirs feels like a relationship as lived-in as a bit of moth-eaten knitwear, cosy and safe and warm.<\/p>\n

All Of You might only work for some of you, but the easy, insatiable fire between Goldstein and Poots is undeniable.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best friends Simon (Brett Goldstein) and Laura (Imogen Poots) struggle to navigate their mutual romantic feelings after Laura…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-160792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}