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A high school student finds herself face-to-face with her long-term crush when she signs up to run a kissing booth at the spring carnival.

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The Kissing Booth deploys every rom-com cliché in the book with little care given to achieving any real sentiment.

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The Kissing Booth | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Rachel Charlene Lewis Bitch Media [Noah and Elle's] relationship quickly spirals into one of those classic toxic relationships that populate Netflix's teen dramas. Mar 16, 2021 Full Review The Kissing Booth | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Kate Erbland IndieWire In another film, the sentiment would be a romantic one. In The Kissing Booth, it feels like a cage. Rated: D May 31, 2018 Full Review The Kissing Booth | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Mikel Zorrilla Espinof A refreshing film in its start but whose interest soon decays to end up being a mediocre movie. [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 2/5 Apr 3, 2019 Full Review The Kissing Booth | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Rachel Wagner rachelsreviews.net The director seemed to have a strange fascination with the lead taking off her shirt and wearing super short skirts, and the camera lingered on her in ways that made me uncomfortable. Rated: F Feb 25, 2019 Full Review The Kissing Booth | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Ani Bundel NBC News THINK It feels like it was written by someone who simply digested everything she was told "romance" was supposed to be by the patriarchy, and vomited back at us. Nearly every cliché in the film feels cribbed from another movie. Jan 31, 2019 Full Review The Kissing Booth | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Andrew Collins Radio Times A smattering of swearing, sexual references and underage drinking means it doesn't patronise its intended audience, and it refreshingly allows the female lead to be the dork, rather than some unobtainable Venus. Rated: 3/5 Jan 8, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Amy L I am a sucker for cringeworthy teen romance lmao Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/12/25 Full Review Aïcha K The kissing booth is a rom-com directed by Vince Marcello in 2018 the lead actors other than her are Joey King place the rôle of Ella Evans y Jacob Elordi place the role of Noah Flynn and Joel Courtney place the role of Lee Flynn It's the story of two brothers, one of whom has had a best friend since birth the other is a bad boy but falls in love with the best friend in question Noah flynn y Ella Evans live their love story behind the back of Lee Flynn but this brings them problemsI think it's a good film mixing love and comedy. The actors play quite well despite their great ages for their roles as teenagers.The sets are pretty good except in some shots where the green background is too present. Finally, this film is cool to watch to spend a funny and exciting time Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/28/25 Full Review Calvin O Hard to RateThe acting was good, for the type of movie it was. The chemistry was great. I liked all of the main characters, but the writers WTF? They blamed the love interest for what the main female character was responsible for? WTF? Did I miss why everyone hated the love interest as well? I mean, sure, maybe they didn't think he was right for her, I get that, but they all seemed to actively DISLIKE him. EVERYONE in the mc's life hated him. I didn't get that at all. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/25 Full Review Alan G Elle and Noah relationship is not only extremely toxic, but is also barely legal, wich made me uncomfortable most of the movie.Lee character is just so dumb, how tf he doesn´t realize that the rules they made when they were kids are so stupid? Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/19/25 Full Review Hayley D I absolutely love this movie as well as the kissing booth 2 and 3 I can not stop watching them they are just too good!!!! I would 💯% recommend this movie to you if you want to watch a romance film it is amazinggggggggggg and I really wish they would make another movie because I would definitely watch it and if you haven’t watched yet I recommend you go watch it asap Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/03/25 Full Review jolin t I cannot comprehend what trash I have just watched. This is the president of the sexually driven, low budget "romance" movies that have destroyed the romcom genre. The only nice thing in this movie is the cute montage at the start of the movie. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/04/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Vince Marcello Director Joey King Elle Evans Jacob Elordi Noah Flynn Molly Ringwald Mrs. Flynn Meganne Young Rachel Joel Courtney Lee Flynn

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Synopsis A high school student finds herself face-to-face with her long-term crush when she signs up to run a kissing booth at the spring carnival.

Director
Vince Marcello

Producer
Michele Weisler, Andrew Cole-Bulgin, Ed Glauser

Screenwriter
Vince Marcello

Production Co
Komixx Entertainment

Rating
TV-14

Genre
Romance, Comedy

Original Language
English

Release Date (Streaming)
May 11, 2018

Runtime
1h 45m

Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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