At first, ‘All of You’ seems to be set in a near-future world where everyone must find their perfect partner through a viral dating app – as if algorithms alone can determine love and destiny. But as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that this isn’t science fiction so much as a modern twist on the timeless question posed by ‘When Harry Met Sally’: can you fall in love with your best friend without losing the friendship along the way?

Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots play two best friends who are closer to each other than to anyone else in their lives. Their partners come and go, yet they remain constant – confidants, emotional anchors, and, inevitably, potential lovers. From the very first scene, it’s obvious there’s a deep attraction between them, which makes their insistence on dating other people feel both unbelievable and frustrating. So when they finally do get together, it’s less a surprise than a confirmation of what we’ve known all along.

The film raises questions about loyalty, marriage, and the limits of long-term friendship. What happens when one of them marries and has children? Can you leave a spouse for your soulmate – and would that love survive the guilt and fallout that follow? These are age-old dilemmas, but they’re handled here with sincerity, even if the film’s “compatibility test” premise feels like a narrative contrivance rather than a genuine insight. After all, as with real-life dating apps, the idea that a single algorithm can identify your one true soulmate is absurd as it takes it as a given that both people happen to be on the same app.

Stylistically, the film hints at something futuristic and ethereal, but in truth, it’s a contemporary relationship drama dressed in tech trappings. It jumps forward in time – weeks, months, even years – tracing the circular rhythm of the central relationship as the pair come together, drift apart, and reconnect. Each cycle is tender, sometimes heartbreaking, and always tinged with regret.

In the end, ‘All of You’ may not break new ground, but its message is quietly resonant: whether guided by algorithms or instinct, the heart can’t be programmed… and it never stops searching for what, or who, feels right.