Movies like What Women Want

It's a broad, high-concept romantic comedy that uses a single comic device to rework workplace power dynamics into an accessible meditation on gender and empathy. The premise is simple: a cocky advertising exec finds himself inside other people's heads, and the film treats that tilt in perception as both a source of jokes and a diagnostic lens on everyday sexism. That balance — between gag-driven set pieces and a surprisingly consistent attention to point-of-view — is the film's honest strength. Performances lean into the premise with commitment, and the screenplay keeps momentum by turning misunderstandings into character information rather than pure spectacle. Tonally the picture reads as a workplace farce filtered through a romantic-comedy grammar: tight-framing and brisk cutting keep the pace energetic, while clean production values smooth the tonal jumps from satire to sentiment. The visual grammar serves the comic beats, but the heart of the movie is procedural rather than metaphysical — the story tracks how access to interior thought complicates consent, accountability, and romantic intent. That produces an ethical tension beneath the jokes: the film often asks whether insight, gained by invention rather than admission, can substitute for genuine empathy. If you like rom-coms that trade slapstick for situational intelligence, this one is generous without being sanctimonious. It doesn’t solve the structural problem it dramatizes, but it converts a magical premise into a social reading that remains conversational and, finally, cautiously hopeful.