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Forbidden Fruits review

By Joel Humphries · Watched 03.30.26

★★ 2 / 5

Spoiler-free review

Forbidden Fruits promises a stylish, vicious, funny and witchy mean-girl movie, then consistently delivers less of every ingredient. The characters lack the bite, the jokes rarely land and the whole production trudges along until Gabrielle finally supplies a little life. By then, the screening had become an exercise in waiting for a better movie that never arrived. There is almost certainly something else playing in your theater with more personality, energy or purpose. Choose that.

Full review — contains spoilers

Not stylish enough, not mean girl enough, not fun enough, not funny enough, not witchy enough. The whole thing was just a slog until Gabrielle showed up. Don't watch this. I'm sure there's something better in your theater.

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