5.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Messy (2025)
Messy (2025)
Overview
Comedy-drama Messy follows Stella Fox, a self-aware love addict, as she moves to New York after a breakup and navigates a year of fleeting, disappointing romances in a fragmented narrative. Directed by and starring Alexi Wasser, with Adam Goldberg, Ione Skye, and Thomas Middleditch.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
5.4
Overview
Comedy-drama Messy follows Stella Fox, a self-aware love addict, as she moves to New York after a breakup and navigates a year of fleeting, disappointing romances in a fragmented narrative. Directed by and starring Alexi Wasser, with Adam Goldberg, Ione Skye, and Thomas Middleditch.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film centers on a woman's chaotic dating life in New York, emphasizing personal emotional struggles and relational mishaps without promoting or critiquing broader ideological positions. Its focus on individual self-awareness and romantic failures determines the neutral stance.
The cast features predominantly white actors in lead and key supporting roles, with limited diversity limited to one Middle Eastern actor in a minor part. The narrative delivers a female perspective on chaotic modern dating, subtly challenging conventional gender expectations in relationships without emphasizing racial or broader identity critiques.
Secondary
The film contains no depictions of family structures, roles, or values. Its narrative centers on a single woman's casual dating and sexual experiences, rendering family life irrelevant.
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
No transgender characters or themes are present in the film. The narrative centers on a cisgender woman's chaotic dating life in New York, with no exploration of trans identities or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Messy presents an original autobiographical story centered on new characters created by director Alexi Wasser, without any adaptations, biopics, or reboots involving canonically established genders.
Messy presents original characters in an autobiographical comedy without source material establishing prior racial depictions. No instances of race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.1
5.6
Critic Ratings
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