Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Amy Morton, Brandon Sklenar
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Romantic drama directed by Justin Baldoni and written by Christy Hall, based on the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover. It Ends With Us (2024) follows Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) as she starts a new life in Boston and pursues her dream of opening a business. A romance with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni) brings both passion and troubling reminders of her past. When her first love, Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar), reappears, her relationship with Ryle is upended, and she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
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Top 8 Moments from It Ends With Us
1. Lily and Ryle’s First Meeting
Lily Bloom: What do you do for a living?
Ryle Kincaid: Neurosurgeon. Is that funny?
Lily Bloom: Jesus. You’re serious.
Ryle Kincaid: Yeah.
Ryle Kincaid: Why haven’t I seen you before?
Lily Bloom: Well, mostly because I’ve never required brain surgery.
Ryle Kincaid: Lily Bloom the florist. No, it doesn’t sound made-up at all.
Lily Bloom: Well, you know, naked truths aren’t always pretty.
Ryle Kincaid: Love isn’t for me. Lust is nice though.
Lily Bloom: I feel like you’re missing out.
Ryle Kincaid: Am I?
2. Lily Opening Her Flower Shop
Allysa: I just hate flowers. Like, why don’t you just give me something that’s living rather than something that’s on its way to dying? And then it’s going to create more work for me, and I’m going to have to deal with that. But again, it’s a solo perspective. I find flower shops depressing. It’s just me.
Lily Bloom: I find them depressing. Because I feel like, I don’t know, it’s like the beauty of what a flower is has been lost.
Allysa: [to Lily] You’re like Dr. Frankenstein, but with flowers.
3. After Lily Introduces Ryle to Jenny
Jenny Bloom: [referring to Ryle] You never told me you were dating the most beautiful man.
Lily Bloom: Well, he’s got a good personality to make up for it though, so.
4. Atlas Confronts Lily About her Relationship with Ryle
Atlas Corrigan: [after seeing Lily’s black eye] You got to leave him.
Lily Bloom: I am not your mother, Atlas.
Atlas Corrigan: Leave him. Are you turning into yours?
Ryle Kincaid: [to Lily] Oh, so this is Atlas. The homeless boy you wasted your virginity on?
Lily Bloom: Hey, that thing that he said about that you know, with us. It wasn’t wasted.
Atlas Corrigan: I know. I was there.
5. Ryle Confronts Lily About Her Feelings for Atlas
Ryle Kincaid: [referring to Atlas] Do you love him?
Lily Bloom: I did.
Ryle Kincaid: Do you love him now?
Lily Bloom: I love you.
Ryle Kincaid: That wasn’t my question.
Lily Bloom: I don’t know.
6. Lily’s Decision to Leave Ryle
Lily Bloom: [referring to her mother, Jenny] I was never going to become her.
Atlas Corrigan: You’re not becoming her.
Lily Bloom: If I can’t even take care of myself, then how am I, you know, supposed to take care of a baby?
Atlas Corrigan: [to Lily] You saved my life is what I’m trying to say. That’s who you are. And if you decide to keep it, you are going to be an amazing mother. And that baby is so lucky. You’ve got this.
Atlas Corrigan: [to Lily] If you ever find yourself in the position to love somebody again, just fall in love with me.
Allysa: As his sister, I wish more than anything that you could find a way to forgive him. But as your best friend, Lily, if you take him back, I will never speak to you again.
7. Lily’s Birth to Emerson
Lily Bloom: I want a divorce.
Ryle Kincaid: Hey. Let’s not.
Lily Bloom: Hey, yes. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not for you or me. It’s for her.
Lily Bloom: [referring to their daughter] If the person she loved was hurting her, what would you say to her?
Ryle Kincaid: I would beg her to leave him. And I’d beg her never to go back.
Lily Bloom: [as she holds Emerson] Stops right here, bubba. With you and me. It ends with us. Okay? It ends with us.
8. Life After Ryle and Running into Atlas
Atlas Corrigan: [as little time later after they run into each other] Are you still with…
Lily Bloom: No. No. No, it’s just us.
Atlas Corrigan: Oh. Wow.
Lily Bloom: Are you with anyone?
Atlas Corrigan: No. Not yet.