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Heart Eyes does not shy away from reference or established playbook, both to its benefit and detriment. At any given moment, the film might recall such disparate films as Scream 2 and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, before soon reminding of Thanksgiving and then moving in the direction of something like In Search of a Midnight Kiss. Ruben is fluent in both templates, and his best trick is retaining the earnestness of the rom-com amidst all the arterial spray; striking that balance is not an easy thing to orchestrate, but Heart Eyes’ genre ebb and flow feels both effortless and carefully calibrated. But by the time we make it to the film’s final third, the film’s one trick has already been stretched too thin.

It’s all fairly predictable. Anyone who has seen more than a couple of serial killer movies will have no problem assembling a list of possible masked murderers. But Josh Ruben’s film goes above and beyond when it comes to squelchy, visceral gore.

An affectionate bloody valentine to both romcoms and horror, Heart Eyes is a like a Hinge date from hell. Smart, funny, intense; swipe right.

Heart Eyes is so vacuous and confused that it can’t even decide if it’s cynical or sentimental about love itself.

Heart Eyes is a rock-solid, charming, and hilarious rom-com with a deliciously gory slasher comedy elegantly layered over it.

No one expects, or wants, every slasher to emulate the snappy self-aware snark of Scream but Ruben isn’t even able to conjure up the fun of something with far less expectation attached.

Heart Eyes is strong enough that the shortcomings that keep it in the realm of the passable instead of the actually good are maddening.

Heart Eyes walks the fine line between a ’90s slasher with a modern savage edge and a romcom with rare, white-hot chemistry without ever feeling novel or gimmicky. It’s simply a breathlessly entertaining ride that leaves you cheering for love and creative kills in equal measure.

It’s a freaky celebration that confirms holiday horror, if it ever left, is so back, and a standout achievement in the deceptively dense category of recent romances across genre comedy.

Ruben tries to keep the action moving. But he’s hampered by a disheveled and directionless script... that repeatedly strands its characters in idle dialogue scenes, including a tedious episode at the world’s emptiest police station. Holt and Gooding have the chemistry of strangers whose speed date is speed tanking.

“Heart Eyes” is a raving good time. As a Valentine’s Day flick and a horror picture, it lands for fans of all kinds: those who seek warmth, wrath, or both.

There’s nothing more appealing in a potential romantic partner than confidence, empathy, and honesty, and much of the success of Heart Eyes is tied to it being abundant in all three. Even while bathing in some of the most tired tropes of both slashers and rom-coms, there’s such a warmth and charm to the whole thing that it can’t help but come off as endearing.