Great movie, great acting. Solid writing.

However, 3.5 stars bc I hate this director. There are no women in this film (except the brief gf whose character only exists to highly how lonely + isolated + fcked up the main character is - she hardly says anything). There's also lots of BIPOC bg characters, but neither of the two main characters ever show an actual relationship with any of them. The two competitors the main character is pitted against are…

Fun and gay. The acting is fine enough to get through it for what they have to work with. Somehow, Philemon Chambers, who has the least amount of credits by far than the other actors, CARRIES this movie as the friend/romantic interest. Also he's really really pretty and that helps a lot too.

Overall, it's fun, it's sweet, it's like if Hallmark made a gay friends-to-lovers Christmas movie. (And that's where your expectations should be for, well, everything about the…