Tribeca 2025 | Movie Review: "Oh Hi!" Starts Strong, But Comes Undone

6/12 ForReel Score | 2.5/5 Stars

Oh, Hi! is a lot of fun…to start. 

A young couple goes on their first trip together to a secluded and beautiful Airbnb, where we are just flies on the wall, watching their romance continue to bloom. It’s funny and playful. It’s sweet and it’s romantic. You start to see why these two may have fallen for each other.

But, as one thing leads to the next, their day of swooning quickly unravels into a night of chaos. At first, it’s actually a nicely surprising pivot, leaving you questioning where the movie is headed. However, the longer the antics persist, the farther the film drifts into outlandishness. 

There’s a lot to like in Oh, Hi! First and foremost, it’s two leads: Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman. The two have genuine chemistry and exhibit a welcome playfulness. They play both the romance and the comedy incredibly well, and I was genuinely invested in where their relationship was headed. The first half of the movie gives them both their due; you’re not only invested in the conversations – sometimes deep, sometimes silly – that Iris (Gordon) and Isaac (Lerman) have, but you’re also on board with the film’s pivot to what's best described as a darkly comedic spin on Misery.

Without giving too many details away, Isaac is trapped, tied up to a bed as Iris grows increasingly hysterical over a certain reveal. And that deterioration of the established romance is deeply funny at first. But the longer it progresses, and the more and more extreme Iris’s actions become, the farther disconnected you become from the narrative. 

Writer/Director Sophie Brooks seems to have a lot on the mind when it comes to modern dating and gender stereotypes, but it never quite coalesces. It tends to go for the surface level schtick as opposed to digging deeper into the messages and meaning, leaving it all a bit muddled.  I think Brooks has a lot of talent, and could certainly have a promising future as a filmmaker, but this one just felt a bit too overstuffed and never quite focused enough to leave a lasting impact. 

Oh, Hi! is a mixed bag of a film. With plenty to like about it, it may still be worth a recommendation, so long as viewers go in with their expectations appropriately set. There’s a lot of fun to be had, and the actors at the center of it are worth the price of admission, but just be prepared to suspend disbelief as the film veers from dark comedy a bit too far into absurdist comedy.