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What’s love got to do with it?
What if a simple test could tell you whether you and your partner were actually in love?
Jessie Buckley and Jeremy Allen White in ‘Fingernails’.apple films
So romantic, right?
Similarly, Ahmed is delightful in this lighter romantic space.
He plays yearning exceptionally well and brings a grounded-ness to the otherwise bonkers conceit.
The film is undercut by its use of body horror, needlessly depicting the fingernail removal process multiple times.
There are interesting concepts at play in the waysFingernailsexplores loneliness and desire.
Notably, the test doesn’t account for long-term compatibility but the more intangible presence of love.
Ultimately, director Christos Nikou seems to want to say that no one knows anything about love, actually.
While that may be true, it’s hardly compelling.Grade: B-
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