My Fault premiered on Amazon Prime on June 8, 2023, with a tagline that makes a promise the film never quite keeps: “Love can only survive in the shadow of secrets.” It runs 116 minutes. Domingo González directed it and wrote the screenplay, working from a Wattpad story by Mercedes Ron. It was González’s feature-length directorial debut. Nicole Wallace plays Noah Morán and Gabriel Guevara plays Nick Leister. The film was the most watched title on Amazon Prime in 2023, even though critics mostly panned it. Both of those things are true, and the gap between them is the whole story.
Trailer, via Prime Video.
KEY FACTS BOX
- Title: My Fault (Spanish: Culpa mía)
- Year: 2023
- Director: Domingo González
- Runtime: 116 minutes
- Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Platform: Amazon Prime
- Premiere: June 8, 2023
- Based on: a Wattpad story by Mercedes Ron
- Sequels: Your Fault (2024), Our Fault (2025)
- Score: 7.7 out of 10
A Ramones Shirt at the Country Club
Noah is seventeen. She has a boyfriend named Dan and a best friend named Betty, and she leaves both behind when her mother Rafaella marries William Leister, a wealthy man with a mansion. Noah is proud and independent, and she resists the luxury she has been dropped into. Then she meets Nick, her new stepbrother, and the two of them clash from the first minute.
The film’s best instinct is that Noah refuses to dress for the life she has landed in. Her closet is full of expensive new clothes. On her first evening, taken to the Leisters’ country club for dinner, she wears an over-sized Ramones t-shirt instead. It is a small choice and a smart one. It tells you who she is without a line of dialogue explaining it.
Both of them want to leave that dinner early. William asks his son to drive her home first. On the way they argue, and Nick forces her out of the car. She is left to hitchhike on a lonely road, and she gets a lift from someone heading to a party. That party belongs to Nick. He is the center of it, and Noah watches in disgust as he makes out with multiple women. Then he catches a party-crasher spiking her drink, throws him out, and drives her home.
Street Racing and the 15,000 Rule
My Fault is at its most alive when it stops being a stepbrother drama and becomes a street-racing film. The rally scenes give the movie its pulse. At a rally, Noah receives upsetting images of Dan and Betty back home. Nick offers to help her send her own make-out pictures with him in return. Before he can get her home — he had left her in the car — Ronnie, a racer from the other team, assumes she is racing for Nick.
Goaded by the other driver, Noah gets behind the wheel. She beats him. Everyone is surprised by how well she drives. She taunts him that a woman beat him. Then he reveals that Nick’s team automatically loses, a rule Noah did not know about. Nick has to pay 15,000 and forfeit his car.
That is the film’s sharpest turn. Noah’s victory is real, and it costs Nick everything. The scene works because the movie lets her win and lets the win be a disaster. Nick then disappears for four days.
Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara Carry the Middle
The relationship between Noah and Nick shifts slowly from hostility to something else, and the film’s middle section depends almost entirely on whether Wallace and Guevara can hold it. They can. Wallace plays Noah as guarded rather than fragile, which keeps the character from becoming a victim of her own story. Guevara has the harder job. Nick is written as a type — the rich, reckless stepbrother with a secret — and Guevara gives him enough stillness to suggest a person underneath the type.
The supporting cast is solid without being asked to do much. Marta Hazas plays Rafaella Leister, Iván Sánchez plays William Leister, and Eva Ruiz plays Jenna. Víctor Varona is Lion, Fran Berenguer is Ronnie, Adriana Ubani is Anna, Ivan Massagué is Jonas, Mariano Venancio is Martin, Jaime Ordóñez is Chofer, and Jaime Gutiérrez is Leonardo. Ronnie matters most, because he is the one who exposes the rule that costs Nick his car.
What Wattpad Structure Does to a Film
My Fault is based on a Wattpad story, and it carries the marks of that origin. Wattpad fiction runs on momentum. It is built from cliffhangers, from chapters that end before you are ready, from the pull of the next beat. Translated to film, that structure produces a movie that moves fast and explains little.
The film has two sequels, Your Fault in 2024 and Our Fault in 2025, forming a trilogy. That matters for how you read the ending. My Fault is not a complete story. It is the first third of one, and it behaves like it. Threads are opened and left open. Nick disappears for four days and the film never fully accounts for where he went. The secrets in the tagline stay secrets.
That is a fair criticism and also, in a way, the point. My Fault is not trying to be a self-contained film. It is trying to get you to the next one.
What the Audience Score Measures
The published score for My Fault is 7.7 out of 10, drawn from a TMDB audience score of 4,190 votes. That is a large sample of real viewers, and it sits in tension with the fact that critics mostly panned the film. Both numbers can be true at once, and the reason is not mysterious.
Critics judge a film as a film: structure, dialogue, resolution. My Fault is weak on all three. Its plot runs on coincidence. Noah gets into a car with a stranger, ends up at Nick’s party, ends up in a race she never signed up for, and wins it in a way that ruins him. That is a chain of accidents, not a story. The dialogue does what it needs to do and no more. The ending does not resolve, it defers.
Audiences are not grading on those terms. They are responding to Wallace and Guevara, to the stepbrother premise, to the racing scenes, to the specific pleasure of a movie that knows exactly what it is and does not apologize for it. My Fault is a romance-thriller built for the platform it premiered on, and it found the audience that platform promised.
The Mansion, the Car, and What Gets Lost
The film’s biggest failure is that it does not know what it has. The Leister mansion is a setting with real teeth — a wealthy man’s house that Noah did not choose and cannot leave. The film uses it as a backdrop. It should be a pressure chamber.
The car is the same problem. Nick forfeits it after the race, and the loss should land hard. It does not, because the film moves on before the weight of it settles. My Fault is in a hurry. It is always in a hurry. Wattpad momentum again.
Where the film does land is in the small physical details. The Ramones t-shirt. The lonely road where Noah hitchhikes. The party where she watches Nick with other women. These are the moments that stick, and they stick because they are concrete. The film is best when it shows you something and worst when it explains.
The Opening Act of a Trilogy
My Fault is a 116-minute first act with a racing scene in the middle and a stepbrother romance wrapped around it. It was Domingo González’s directorial debut, and that shows in the pacing, which is uneven, and in the plotting, which leans on coincidence. It also shows in the casting, which is the film’s real achievement. Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara make the central relationship work, and the film became the most watched title on Amazon Prime in 2023 because of it.
The trilogy structure is the thing to watch. Your Fault followed in 2024 and Our Fault in 2025, and My Fault only makes sense as the opening of that arc. Judged alone, it is incomplete. Judged as the first third of something larger, it does its job.
The secrets in the tagline are still secrets. That is either a promise or a dodge, and My Fault does not tell you which. It just gets you to the next one.
7.7 of 10.
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