Despite this clever setup, Tom Gormican’s film isn’t the self-reflexive skewering of Hollywood that one might expect.
Together’s dramaturgy perfectly, if unintentionally, underscores the suffocating nature of pandemic living.
David Freyne manages to indict the societal expectation of heterosexuality as a traumatizing force while also humanizing its straight victims.
The film seems almost content to have you forget about everything that inspired it in the first place.
Mark Perez’s screenplay maintains just enough plausibility to prevent the film from veering into sheer absurdity.
Lake Bell and Simon Pegg’s star wattage can’t distract from the sense that their characters are almost exclusively defined by their single-ness.
Ian Fitzgibbon’s film sidesteps most of the potential pitfalls of sentimentality inherent in its premise.