The point is made that members of the LGBTQIA+ community need to be seen - in schools, in gallery exhibits, in movies - and that their lives are not heteronormative...and then a story as mawkish as a traditional Hallmark romance plays out with one of the two main characters even needing love to help him open the chocolate shop of his childhood dreams - perhaps I missed the irony - and that the film stays close to our central couple who have very little chemistry, and that there are no peripheral characters whose names, stories or faces you'll remember make Bros pretty irritating and boring, and anyway, Hallmark released its first gay romance in December 2022, so check out that schmaltz instead, maybe, if romance is your thing.
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