The Last Sunrise review – Amazon’s soapy YA romance is thankless and bland
Another familiar concoction fails to make use of its sunny location and chooses cheap melodrama over romantic charm A titular sunrise, a summer fling fantasy, exorbitant wealth, impossibly sculpted bodies: such are the profitable story ingredients that make up The Last Sunrise, the latest offering in Amazon’s endless catalogue of “romance content”. I wouldn’t ordinarily use that term to describe a film, but it fits T
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- Romance films
Another familiar concoction fails to make use of its sunny location and chooses cheap melodrama over romantic charm A titular sunrise, a summer fling fantasy, exorbitant wealth, impossibly sculpted bodies: such are the profitable story ingredients that make up The Last Sunrise, the latest offering in Amazon’s endless catalogue of “romance content”. I wouldn’t ordinarily use that term to describe a film, but it fits T
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The Last Sunrise review – Amazon’s soapy YA romance is thankless and bland
Another familiar concoction fails to make use of its sunny location and chooses cheap melodrama over romantic charm A titular sunrise, a summer fling fantasy, exorbitant wealth, impossibly sculpted bodies: such are the profitable story ingredients that make up The Last Sunrise, the latest offering in Amazon’s endless catalogue of “romance content”. I wouldn’t ordinarily use that term to describe a film, but it fits T
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