SXSW Film Review: ‘The New Romantic’

College senior Blake Conway (Jessica Barden) is desperate to fall in love Hollywood-style.

During Carly Stone’s gangly “The New Romantic,” she’ll hail “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle” as her dating ideals.

Alas, name-drop Nora Ephron to a cute colleague at the school paper (Brett Dier) and he’ll grunt, “Who is that? Zac Efron’s mom?” “The grandest it gets these days is swiping left instead of right,” writes Blake in the school paper, concluding, “Romance is dead.”Stone and her leading lady are full of big, banal pronouncements about the problem with modern courtship.

Worse, she’s a sex diarist who isn’t having any sex, so her editor Matt (Avan Jogia) refuses to print her columns until she has something more original to say.

When Blake pitches a story idea about becoming a sugar baby for a wealthy man, Matt doesn’t arm-twist

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