Rom-coms come and go in waves, and even earlier than Netflix begins cranking out one other set of mushy festive motion pictures, Miranda Cosgrove’s new movie might characteristic The Flawed Paris, however it’s hitting all the correct chords with subscribers. The movie didn’t take any time in pushing apart the mighty KPop Demon Hunters and aka Charlie Sheen to say the highest spot nearly instantly.
The Flawed Paris takes its title to simplified extra because the movie finds Daybreak (Cosgrove), an aspiring artist who simply bought right into a Paris, France artwork faculty, becoming a member of a actuality courting present to snag the money she wants, solely to find the manufacturing is ready in Paris, Texas – aka the fallacious Paris. Daybreak is set to get eradicated and take the examine, so she tries to tank her display time… till chemistry with the present’s “cowboy bachelor” (Pierson Fodé) complicates the plan.
The thought of throwing collectively a rom-com primarily based round a trashy actuality TV present and clichéd unlikely attraction storyline looks like it’s destined to be fully slapped round by critics. Nevertheless, it has as an alternative fared fairly effectively, and landed a 60% Tomatometer rating for its hassle. Sure, there are the standard gripes about over-used tropes and boring characters, however there are many others which have referred to as it a “pleasant” and “light-weight piece of enjoyable.” Typically, that’s all you want, and having a sizzling cowboy in your clickable banner artwork clearly doesn’t do a lot hurt both.
‘The Flawed Paris’ Divides Audiences, however It Is Nonetheless a Large Success
Miranda Cosgrove headlines alongside Fodé, with supporting roles for Yvonne Orji, Frances Fisher, Madison Pettis, Hannah Stocking, Madeleine Arthur, Christin Park, and extra. The film is directed by Janeen Damian (who beforehand teamed with Netflix on Falling for Christmas and Irish Want) from a script by Nicole Henrich.
The Flawed Paris has fared a lot better than many related motion pictures in its opinions. In truth, lots of the viewers opinions are glowing, with some calling it “an ideal ladies evening in” film and others including that they “completely liked it.” A handful of opinions observe that you’ll want to actually droop disbelief and ignore the romantic fantasy components, however that’s typically a given in such motion pictures.
Regardless, Netflix appears to be getting its late-in-the-year rom-com groove on early this 12 months, however we will probably be seeing lots extra of this sort of film frequenting the primary place because the nights get darker. Sadly, they most likely received’t all be as watchable as The Flawed Paris has turned out to be.

The Flawed Paris
- Launch Date
-
September 12, 2025
- Runtime
-
105 minutes
- Director
-
Janeen Damian
- Writers
-
Nicole Henrich
- Producers
-
Brad Krevoy, Michael Damian, Amanda Phillips, Miranda Cosgrove, Jimmy Townsend
-
-
-
Madison Pettis
Lexi Miller
-