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Rating: R
Stars: Lucy Hale, Virginia Gardner, Brooke Nevin, Samer Salem, Jedediah Goodacre, Brendan Morgan, Bethany Brown, Jayr Tinaco, RJ Featherstone, Threnody Thai
Writers: Ivan Diaz and Dan Scheinkman and Meghan Brown
Director: Laura Murphy
Distributor: Lionsgate
Release Date: March 7, 2025 (theatrical, digital)

F MARRY KILL turns the trope into a romcom. In order to suit its title, there is a murder mystery involved, but its tone and humor are more invested in who our heroine will choose than whodunit.

Eva (Lucy Hale) is celebrating her thirtieth birthday with best pals Kelly (Virginia Gardner), Robin (Bethany Brown) and Anthony (JayR Tinaco), plus older sister Valerie (Brooke Nevin).

Eva has been dumped after an eight-year relationship with cop Jake (RJ Featherstone). Feeling that she has wasted her twenties, Eva resolves to enter her new decade by getting out there, taking some chances and having fun.

A serial murderer, dubbed the Swipe Right Killer due to his penchant for targeting young women who use dating apps, is active in the college town neighborhood. Valerie, a married mother of three who is extremely protective of her little sister, would like to know every move Eva makes.

Kelly, also married, seems less preoccupied by Eva’s safety than her marriage prospects. Some women imagine their weddings; Kelly has moved on from her own to wanting one for Eva so that they can sync up their eventual motherhood.

Robin, though, is unconditionally supportive of Eva’s desire to explore life’s possibilities. She and Eva create a dating profile together.

This quickly produces both sexy bar owner Mitch (Brendan Morgan) and old high school classmate Kyle (Jedediah Goodacre). Handsome security system installer Norman (Samer Salem) also enters the mix.

Refreshingly, Eva is not the sort of protagonist who worries about any of these fellows finding out about the others (and F MARRY KILL isn’t the sort of movie that worries about that, either). She does start to become concerned that one of them may be the Swipe Right Killer.

Hale’s performance is perfectly on-target for the material. Eva is one of those characters who is meant to be all things to all people, sexy but not intimidating, cute but not annoying, smart within her social context but not smarter than the target audience. This homogeneity won’t be for everyone, but it’s certainly hard to pull off, and kudos to Hale for doing it so expertly.

Laura Murphy’s direction keeps things feeling simultaneously frenetic and light. The screenplay by Ivan Diaz and Dan Scheinkman and Meghan Brown has a couple of good twists.

There are some behavioral red flags from one potential suitor that Eva dismisses too easily. Her ex-boyfriend Jake is such an oaf that we’re sorry he’s not a suspect, and we lose some respect for Eva for having stayed with him for the better part of a decade.

Despite the serial killer aspect, onscreen gore here is strictly cozy mystery (think TV’s ELSBETH). However, there is a brief attempted sexual assault. It is likewise non-explicit but consider the trigger warning posted.

Neither of these elements are likely to have triggered F MARRY KILL’s R rating. That seems to be about the cheerfully free sexuality and similarly detailed dialogue.

As romantic comedies about choosing the right fellow go, F MARRY KILL broadly hits the right notes. Because of the possibility that any of these guys could be a homicidal Lothario, we’re not encouraged to root for any one of them too strongly, but all have their charms.

The main problem with F MARRY KILL is that it feels a lot like a telefilm. The jokes may raise a smile but are seldom laugh-out-loud. The jeopardy, even when the knives are finally out, never seems killer.

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