73
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleInstead of sinking into crude, one-night-stand joke territory, Night Owls roots around for the spark of real chemistry and, in the winning turns of Pally and Salazar, finds it.
- 80VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerThe execution here is impressively adroit, with a clever script enlivened by two charmingly compatible lead performances from Rosa Salazar and Adam Pally.
- 75RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyRogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyThe film has more in common with 1930s screwball (films filled with obvious coincidences) than the more clunky, often-humorless films that pass for "rom-coms" today.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe performances are so crackling that you can imagine Ms. Salazar and Mr. Pally, given richer material, becoming a slapstick comedy team: the spitfire and the nerd.
- 70Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyVillage VoiceSherilyn ConnellyCharles Hood's Night Owls is a mostly satisfying two-hander that never quite lives up to its full potential.