They shortened the title of Michael Ausiello’s 2017 memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies” to the generic and vague “Spoiler Alert” for the movie, but Michael Showalter’s warm, funny and moving adaptation makes it clear from the opening scene that we’re about to watch a love story that ends in tragic and premature death. We start at the end and then make our way back to the beginning — and what transpires over the course of a 13-year relationship and over the course of the movie has us reaching for the tissues when we return back to the hospital and that opening scene.
Now we know about the two wonderful, real, flawed and lovely people in this relationship. Now we know everything they’ve been through up to this moment. Now we have great empathy for them, and we wish it could end differently, but we already know it won’t.
