Oh, Hi! (2025)

Movie · 2025 · Romance, Comedy, Thriller · 1h 35m · R · English

Curator score: 3.0/10 (147.7K ratings)

When you find the one, lock them down.

Overview

Iris and Isaac's first weekend away as a couple is going so well — until Isaac mentions he didn’t know they were a couple. Convinced she's met her perfect guy and that he's just confused, Iris goes to increasingly ridiculous and irrational lengths to prove to Isaac that they are meant to be together.

Ratings

Director

Sophie Brooks

Production

QWGmire, Watermark Media, Cliffbrook Films, AmorFortuna, Bespoke Production Capital, No Comp Films

Cast

Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds, David Cross, Polly Draper, Desmin Borges, Diana Irvine, Jimmy Gary Jr., Ruben Ortiz, Tabitha Lawing, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Jessie Nelson

Where to watch

Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Curator Review

Verdict

A sharp, increasingly unhinged romantic-comedy thriller with a strong premise and a playful sense of escalation. It’s most effective as a cringe-comedy about delusion, desire, and the chaos of modern dating, though the tonal swing into absurdity won’t work for everyone.

Best for

  • viewers who like dark rom-coms with a mean streak
  • fans of relationship-comedy discomfort and escalating bad decisions
  • people drawn to female-led antihero stories
  • audiences who enjoy thriller elements folded into comedy

Skip if

  • you want a sincere or emotionally grounded romance
  • you dislike secondhand embarrassment and messy behavior
  • you prefer thrillers with high stakes over domestic absurdity
  • you need every character to be likable

Overview

Oh, Hi! takes a deceptively simple dating-misunderstanding premise and pushes it into full-blown romantic panic. The result is a movie that lives on awkwardness, control issues, and the absurd logic people use when they want a relationship to be true more than it actually is. It has the kind of premise that invites audience laughter even as the situation gets more alarming.

Worth noting

What makes it work is the lead performance energy and the film’s willingness to let its heroine be funny, needy, manipulative, and self-destructive all at once. The movie leans into the modern situationship nightmare with a knowing, meme-ready sensibility, but it also has enough bite to keep the comedy from feeling too breezy.

Bottom line

It’s not a film for viewers looking for a clean emotional arc or a conventional love story. The appeal is in the escalation: the longer it goes, the more it becomes a satire of romantic projection and the lengths people will go to avoid being rejected. If you like your rom-coms with a side of chaos and a little moral discomfort, this is an easy curiosity.

Top Letterboxd reviews

ali (4.5★) · 10312 likes

completely valid reaction to being rejected by logan lerman

-ˏˋ mak ˊˎ- (3★) · 9864 likes

“i can fix him” says girl who is worse

Reese (3.5★) · 6694 likes

call me crazy but I still think they can work it out

Chazm (3.5★) · 6073 likes

I get she’s in the wrong but why would u say that while tied to the bed

júlia (3★) · 5928 likes

i can excuse kidnapping but i draw the line at makings french toasts like that

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Topics

dark rom-com, psychological comedy, relationship satire, female-led, black comedy, awkward humor, obsessive behavior, modern dating, thriller-comedy, toxic romance

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