‘The Idea of You’ Review: A Mostly Not-Guilty Pleasure

Anne Hathaway is just terrific as a 40-year-old woman swept up by a romance with a boy-bander.
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Hayes Campbell, the 24-year-old love interest played by Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You, is not Harry Styles. But he’s also not not Harry Styles. He’s British, tattooed, loves an oversize cardigan — and he’s a member of a boy band that he’s on the verge of outgrowing. The former One Direction member is an inspiration author Robinne Lee has cited for the novel on which the movie is based, and while The Idea of You isn’t Harry Styles fan fiction (a budding subgenre), Hayes does retain the fuzzy outline of a projection. He isn’t a complete character, not like Solène Marchand (Anne…

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