Release: Never Seeing Kristina Again

 

Never Seeing Kristina Again

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Director: Kelly Fremon Craig

Writer: Alex Conn

Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Bridgette Lundy-Paine, Anna Cobb, Joe Swanberg, Jack Dylan Grazer, Dylan Minnette, Madison Pettis, Sunny Suljic, Joshua Bassett, Judy Greer, Jace Norman

Budget: $25,000,000

Domestic Box Office: $10,390,464

Foreign Box Office: $3,013,900

Total Profit: -$22,005,330

Reaction: This one cost too much due to its sizable ensemble cast and used the ever un-marketable genre combination of Comedy/Drama, so the losses should not be much of a surprise here - but with a smaller cast of characters to pay it at least would have cost less.

"Never Seeing Kristina Again is the cinematic equivalent of a group chat that got out of hand - chaotic, self-indulgent, and weirdly obsessed with whether or not girls shave. The film postures as a character-driven dramedy, but forgets to develop any characters worth following. Tom, our passive, pseudo-introspective protagonist, spends two hours orbiting around a girl he barely knows. It’s not a coming-of-age story - it’s a hangout movie where nobody changes, and nothing really matters." - Cal Crowe, Washington Globe

"While I commend Alex Conn for stepping away from political films, Never Seeing Kristina Again feels more like a scattered collection of ideas than a fully realized story. With disjointed dialogue, shallow character development, and no clear thematic direction, forget Kristina - I won’t be seeing this movie again." - Dexter Quinn, Cinematic Observer Newsletter

"Never Seeing Kristina Again clearly aspires to be a Gen Z coming-of-age tale, but its ambitions are undercut by a lack of narrative cohesion, thematic focus, and any meaningful character development. Gabriel LaBelle brings a sincere vulnerability to Tom, yet he is adrift in a story devoid or any arc or journey. The film stumbles from one vignette to the next with little structural clarity. Without a central conflict or a protagonist who grows beyond a few superficial realizations, Never Seeing Kristina Again leaves viewers with the nagging sense that its quirky detours and crass banter were meant to disguise the absence of a point." - Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press

Rated R for language, sexual content, drug and alcohol use, some violence, and thematic elements