Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Vapid narcissists Ely and Naomi maintain a toxic friendship where they are co-dependant and yet not honest to each other. An affair between their parents (which ended in a divorce and a barely-together-marriage) has not broken their bonds, even though they harbour unspoken resentment toward each other -- made worse by their ill-advised pact to never date boys they both find attractive.

Perhaps we'd feel concern for them if they weren't both so self-absorbed and actually wanted the best for each other. Nope, Naomi would rather Ely conform to her fantasy relationship with him where he is not gay and he gives her the love she lacks from her father -- and Ely would rather not call out Naomi on her disregard for her other friends and current boyfriends, or even call her out on being a bad college student for that matter.

What happens doesn't even matter -- like most kids they'll realise that they created most of these problems themselves, and that other people actually have REAL PROBLEMS and maybe they should actually get a hobby or something.

If this in any way resembles your life, SEE A THERAPIST ASAP. The characters in this movie are not real, and if they were, everyone would hate them, because they are horrible. Gain some perspective and watch the news or read a book. Just don't be Naomi or Ely. They suck.

I watched this movie with my family because my daughter is a big Victoria Justice fan. I thought I was going to have suffer through another mediocre high school themed movie but was pleasantly surprised. My 18 year old son and my husband were both emotional at the end. It teaches some really good life lessons and I highly recommend for kids 13 years of age and older. Having lived in NYC at different times in my life, it was wonderful to see the familiar landmarks throughout the film. Both my teenagers loved the movie and as I mentioned my husband was moved as well. I think this movie is a great conversation starter with teen aged kids!

Do you have a soulmate? Someone who you can share everything with, someone you have everything in common with and known for your whole life? A friend whom you love so dearly you sometimes confuse it with real/romantic love? If so, I think, you will find yourself liking this movie a lot!!

When you have a friend in world class whom you never want to part with the worst feeling in the world can be if your friend finds himself another friend OR a boyfriend/girlfriend who might come in between your friendship. Sometimes it is hard to accept that everything cannot stay the way it always has - everything changes as you grow up.

Naomi and Ely have been best friends and lived next to each other their whole lives. They know everything about each other and share everything. Ely is gay which lets them have a very intimate relationship without having to be afraid of falling in love with each other. Everything starts to change when a guy gets in the picture and it suddenly is no longer just Naomi and Ely. The fair of having to share Ely with others makes Naomi sad and a bit passive aggressive - she wants him all to herself and wants everything to stay the same. But maybe change isn't so bad after all. If the friendship is real it will survive everything. And one might learn that love can be many things.

Everyone has their own opinion. In my opinion this movie was a blast to watch and it really just spoke to me!!! I value friendship very much and I know what it is like to feel like you have a soulmate and you are afraid it won't always stay the same way! I feel certain I will watch it again very soon!

PS PLEASE don't be absurd and hate this movie JUST BECAUSE there are gay people involved!!

Average, at best.

'Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List' attempts to walk the right lines, but ultimately falls into a clichéd, predictable friendship tiff story.

Victoria Justice and Pierson Fodé are fine in their respective roles, though I never got a sense of major chemistry between the two. Justice and Matthew Daddario suited each other well, mind.

The main premise is pretty obvious, there's a lot of overly clear plot devices and it as a whole features a lot of coincidences - almost one at every turn. That can be OK, just not with the aforementioned issue.

There's, I guess, a few respectable things it's trying to portray and tell, across different life scenarios - the most interesting is actually the stuff between Naomi and her mother, which I found fairly intriguing and feel they could've done more with.

Not a film I'll be revisiting any time soon.

This was enjoyable enough as indie rom-coms go, even though I didn't get (missed?) what motivated Naomi's coming out of denial at the end of Act Two... My biggest Hunh? came when I checked the release date at the end of the movie... I know she was only 18, but as a young woman living in New York in 2015, I found it incredible that she wasn't gay-savvy enough not to have fallen in love with Ely, or at least acknowledge that it could never work out... That kind of naive self-delusion was more fitting for a girl in the more innocent 1970's (I'm thinking of my younger sister, who had a gay BF she developed a crush on) - it's hard to believe that could still happen almost 50 years later in our current culture... In any case, should be popular with teenage girls.