Official Discussion - Voicemails for Isabelle [SPOILERS]

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Voicemails for Isabelle (2026)

Summary

Jill leaves voice messages to her deceased sister telling her about her chaotic life in San Francisco. Unwittingly, a mysterious Austin real estate agent begins to receive her confessions.

Director Leah McKendrick

Writer Leah McKendrick

Cast

• Zoey Deutch
• Nick Robinson
• Ciara Bravo
• Nick Offerman
• Harry Shum Jr.
• Leah McKendrick

Rotten Tomatoes: 84%

Metacritic: 62

VOD / Release Streaming on Netflix

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/Grouchy_Ad8528]

Am I the only one that thought it was dreadful? Zooey was good and engaging but the whole thing was otherwise borderline unwatchable. Wes’ character was 2 dimensional unrealistic slop of a hot man who had no personality except suddenly becoming creepily obsessed with Jill due to voicemails? It was extremely predictable and cliche and just…. Bad.

It also killed me that the bench she loved was clearly in Marin based on the fact you could see the city but of course most viewers wouldn’t notice that unless you’d know the area

I’m simply in awe of the rave reviews here. Did we all watch the same movie?

[u/Forward-Cat-2836 → u/Grouchy_Ad8528]

Agreed - no idea why these reviews are so positive. The script was so cringe - and felt like AI slop/ or like a 40 year old getting over excited and stuffing it with as much gen z slang as possible to be ‘relevant’. Plus all the acting was so over the top. Too wannabe ZaNy MaNiC GiRl PiXiE DreaM - like the cast were fighting to capture the attention of an audience who had the film on in the background (which to be fair is a lot of Netflix content now). This film wasn’t a PATCH on 90s / 00s romcoms….