Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.
Together is a body-horror romance that leans heavily on its two leads to carry the weight of both relationship drama and escalating physical horror. The acting — particularly from Dave Franco and Alison Brie — is the clear standout, with committed, emotionally raw performances that sell the film's tonal shifts from domestic tension to visceral nightmare. The plot blends relationship-crossroads drama with Cronenbergian body horror in a way that is competent but not especially surprising, hitting familiar beats of couples-in-crisis genre filmmaking. Cinematography captures the rural isolation effectively but doesn't distinguish itself with any particularly memorable visual language. The concept has novelty in its specific fusion of body horror with romantic dissolution as metaphor, though it draws from recognizable influences. The ending, however, falls short — it leans into ambiguity in a way that feels unresolved rather than meaningfully open, undercutting the emotional and horror payoff the film has been building toward.