This young adult romance from Stella Meghie stars the personable Amandla Stenberg from The Hunger Games as Madeline, an 18-year-old woman diagnosed with SCID – severe combined immune deficiency. It has made her dangerously vulnerable to infection and kept her confined to her exceptionally opulent home. What will happen when an unthreateningly cute guy (Nick Robinson) moves in next door? At first, they’re obliged to flirt coyly through glass, then, not without some directorial ingenuity, to meet virtually in fantasy environments such as an imaginary diner complete with resident astronaut.
Everything, Everything isn’t without intelligence or charm, but just because a film is set in a sanitised environment doesn’t mean that it should look or feel as antiseptically, oppressively pastel as this.
