Colleen Hoover has had a slew of book-to-screen adaptations in the works or made for the big screen lately, and there’s only more to come with the Verity adaptation slated for later this year. Her latest is the quiet romance Reminders of Him quietly only hit No. 2 at the box office on opening weekend, but it's racking up pretty large numbers for a movie made on a relatively small budget. The audience is loving it far more than the critics did, and I think it’s obvious why.
Reminders of Him currently has a 54% Rotten Tomatoes score from the critics. That lands it squarely in splat territory. It’s also a reminder that there are sometimes wide discrepancies between critics (who hate predictability) and audiences (who crave it). That’s exactly the reason I think the audience has given Reminders of Him an 89% audience score, landing it squarely in the fresh territory.
