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To Adaego With Love

Directed by Nwamaka Chikezie · 2026 ·

Answer Summary

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%).

Quick Verdict

Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.

58%
Celluloid Score Not Recommended

Five-source breakdown

54% Critic Score
62% Audience
50 Metascore
★★★☆☆ Letterboxd 3
6.3 IMDb /10
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Runtime
2h 0m
Cast
Chisom Agoawuike , Adam Garba , Chioma Chukwuka , Bob-Manuel Udokwu , Onyeka Onwenu , Riyo David

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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