It Ends With Us (2024) review

Teenager Lily (Isabela Ferrer), whose father Andrew (Kevin McKidd) is physically abusive towards her and her mother, establishes an extremely close bond with homeless Atlas Corrigan (Alex Neustaedter), who comes from an equally fragile background but is planning on joining the Marine Corps to escape - as an adult, Lily (Blake Lively) starts a romance with "charming" neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni), opens a florist shop in Boston and just so happens to reconnect with Atlas (Brandon Sklenar), now an acclaimed restauranteur, which infuriates Ryle.  This Lifetime Channel escapee is chock full of dreadful dialogue, lazy plot developments and the tired idea of two individuals creating a "permanent connection" over childhood trauma (which is represented by Lily's heart tattoo), although once Ryle's "true nature" emerges and Lily's injured several times, it makes sense she would initially try to "justify" his behavior before coming to the realization she needs to stop the cycle of abuse she was born into when she brings Ryle's child into the world.  The book this is based on (by Colleen Hoover) is supposedly popular and the movie pulled in formidable chunk at the box office ($335 million), so the ladies must have found something to respond to ... I mean, who knows how many professional brain slicers there are that have a history of "accidentally" murdering their own brother?