To Adaego With Love
Directed by Nwamaka Chikezie · 2026 ·
To Adaego With Love (2026) earns a 58% Celluloid Score — Not Recommended. Not Recommended — reception was largely negative.Audiences (62%) responded more warmly than critics (54%).
Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.
Five-source breakdown
Tribe Nation Theatrical Distribution Why this score?
- Critics were divided or negative (54%).
- General viewers mostly liked it (62%).
- Celluloid Score 58% averages all five public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.
Best for
- Fans of Romance
Not ideal for
- Anyone needing a safe, highly rated pick
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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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