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Four-panel bright rom-com comic with cartoon stand-ins, not photoreal celebrity portraits. Panel 1: a lovesick cartoon musician holding a wrong phone number while a driven cartoon psychology student leads a campus-wide search. Panel 2: a giant cartoon tomato meter reading 88 percent. Panel 3: a giant cartoon popcorn meter reading 90 percent. Panel 4: two cartoon leads standing under a Finding Emily marquee in candy-colored lights.
Four bright rom-com panels: a wrong-number campus search, a tomato meter at 88%, a popcorn meter at 90%, and two cartoon leads under a Finding Emily marquee. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Rotten Tomatoes, Sept. 1, 2026.

Movie Reviews

Finding Emily opens at 88% on the Tomatometer

What happened

Finding Emily is in limited release as of Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, and the Rotten Tomatoes page for the film, checked Tuesday morning, prints an 88% Tomatometer from 68 reviews and a 90% audience score on the Popcornmeter from 50-plus verified ratings. Those are the numbers as the site displays them. The critics consensus, copied as RT prints it, reads: “A sparkling rom-com that satirizes modern social mores with good-natured wit and a lovely rapport between Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn, Finding Emily makes a tried-and-true formula feel brand new.” The page lists the movie as PG-13, 1 hour 51 minutes, Romance and Comedy, now playing, directed by Alicia MacDonald, written by Rachel Hirons, produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Olivier Kaempfer, from Parkville Pictures and Working Title, and distributed by Focus Features. We are not inventing a score or a consensus line. Those two percentages and that consensus sentence are what RT is showing.

Rotten Tomatoes’ own synopsis is the plot we are sticking to. When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way. That is the campus hunt the scores are attached to. Runtime 1h 51m. Rating PG-13 for language, drug references, sexual references, and some crude material. Original language English. Theatrical date Aug. 28, 2026, limited. Audience notes on the same page run from “fun cute easy story” to “breath of fresh air,” which is the Popcornmeter talking, not this desk. We are filing the 88, the 90, the consensus, and the URL on the page we opened: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/finding_emily.

Why it matters

An 88% Tomatometer on a limited opening is the critic half of the conversation, and a 90% Popcornmeter with 50-plus verified ratings is the audience half. Rotten Tomatoes is putting both on the same poster, and they are sitting in the same neighborhood: critics at 88, audiences two points higher at 90. That double meter is the news on the page. The consensus is doing specific work: it names a “sparkling rom-com,” satire of “modern social mores” done with “good-natured wit,” a “lovely rapport” between Rice and Fearn, and a claim that Finding Emily makes “a tried-and-true formula feel brand new.” That is the line the site wants quoted, so that is the line this recap quotes. Certified-fresh math is RT’s business. What this desk needs is the printed 88, the printed 90, the printed consensus, and the director’s name in the same sentence as the campus wrong-number chase.

The movie is also a timing story on that same page. Limited theatrical date Aug. 28, 2026. Runtime 1h 51m. Rating PG-13. Focus Features is the distributor. Working Title and Parkville Pictures are the production companies. We are not adding a box-office estimate the page does not print. We are not grading the romance as a sociology seminar. We are filing what Rotten Tomatoes reports: a new English-language romance-comedy in theaters, a wrong number that turns into a campus frenzy, a musician and a psychology student whose own hearts get tested, and scores of 88 and 90 on the two meters. If you want the critic sentence, RT already wrote it. If you want the audience number, it is 90%.

Conclusion

Rotten Tomatoes has Finding Emily at 88% Tomatometer (68 reviews) and 90% audience (50+ verified), with a consensus that calls it a sparkling rom-com that satirizes modern social mores with good-natured wit and a lovely rapport between Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn, making a tried-and-true formula feel brand new. Alicia MacDonald directed, Rachel Hirons wrote, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Olivier Kaempfer produced, the picture is PG-13 and 1h 51m, and it opened limited on Aug. 28 via Focus Features. The strip is the wrong-number campus search, a tomato dial at 88, a popcorn dial at 90, and two cartoon-stand-in leads under a Finding Emily marquee — bright rom-com colors, no photoreal celebrity portraits. Those scores are RT’s, copied as printed, not guessed.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes