Finding Emily review – warm-hearted gen Z campus romcom is impossible to hate

A Mancunian singer-songwriter becomes a viral divisive figure while trying to track down a girl called Emily Last week came the news that gen Z are big fans of going to the cinema. Now here’s a gen Z romcom from Working Title, the company behind Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill. Directed by Alicia MacDonald from a script by Rachel Hirons, Finding Emily shares DNA with Richard Curtis’s comedies – the same warm heart and charm, plus levels of cheesiness that some may find cringe. In the e...

By Cath Clarke