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  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Giant Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Giant Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m

Summary In contemporary L.A., two unacquainted millennials, spend their weekends “swiping” on the dating app WINX. The options are endless, but it's less about connection and more about hooking-up. But when Martin and Gabi meet they find themselves talking into the early hours. Connecting. It’s exciting. It’s new. Exhilarated by each other, they...

Directed By: Drake Doremus

Written By: Ben York Jones

  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Giant Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Giant Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m

Newness

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
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Summary In contemporary L.A., two unacquainted millennials, spend their weekends “swiping” on the dating app WINX. The options are endless, but it's less about connection and more about hooking-up. But when Martin and Gabi meet they find themselves talking into the early hours. Connecting. It’s exciting. It’s new. Exhilarated by each other, they...

Directed By: Drake Doremus

Written By: Ben York Jones

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25% Positive
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75
Jan 28, 2017
At it’s best, Newness is about how nothing’s really all that new.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
65
Nov 7, 2017
Newness is a modern love story, where selfies and LTE play a role, but its sweet, wildly optimistic final minutes are something else entirely.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
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33% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
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53% Positive
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33% Mixed
5 Ratings
13% Negative
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60
Feb 2, 2017
As a sympathetic look at two likeable lovers who don't know what's good for them, it's enough to give us a rooting interest — even if we're rooting for the two protagonists to accept the consequences of their mistakes and move on.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 28, 2017
An initially captivating drama that loses steam once predictability starts to take hold.
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 28, 2017
Newness attempts to be a prescient look at modern passion, but it ends up recycling the same old tired clichés that invade most sappy cinematic love stories.
By Jordan Ruimy FULL REVIEW
42
Jan 28, 2017
What value there is to be found is in its cast. Hoult and Costa are charismatic, committed, and totally capable of making it feel as though their characters really can’t see what’s coming.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 28, 2017
Surely there is a good movie to be made about caring polyamorous relationships, but as with any romantic story the audience needs to fall in love with the idea of these characters being in love.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Lost City, Scott Free Productions
Release Date Nov 3, 2017
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating Unrated
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