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RomanceDramaWar AFRIFF (Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay)

To Adaego With Love

Directed by Nwamaka Chikezie · 2026

Quick Verdict

To Adaego With Love (2026) has a 58% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Not Recommended — reception was largely negative.

58%
Celluloid Score Not Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

54% Critic Score
62% Audience
50 Metascore
★★★☆☆ Letterboxd 3
6.3 IMDb /10
Runtime
2h 0m

Is To Adaego With Love worth watching?

No — To Adaego With Love earns a 58% Celluloid Score. Not Recommended — reception was largely negative.

Critics Consensus

Reviewers praised the film's committed lead performances and its ambition in tackling post-war reconciliation, but many found its treatment of the civil war's real grievances too tidy and idealistic, arguing the romance never fully wrestles with the history it's built on.

Celluloid Critics Consensus

Audiences (62%) responded more warmly than critics (54%).

What is To Adaego With Love about?

In 1975 Enugu, still raw from the Nigerian civil war, an Igbo schoolteacher named Adaego falls for a Northern army officer stationed nearby. As their families and communities push back against the match, the couple's relationship becomes a stand-in for a fractured country's uncertain path toward reconciliation.

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