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Movie ID: 841
RT slug: one_night_only_2026
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_night_only_2026
Release year: 2026
Runtime: —
Wide release date: 2026-08-07
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Genres: Comedy, Romance
Directors: Will Gluck
Writers: Travis Braun
Producers: Jacqueline Monetta, Will Gluck
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-07-14 17:55:01
Updated: 2026-07-14 17:55:01
Academy Award® nominee Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown, Top Gun: Maverick) and BAFTA nominee Callum Turner (Masters of the Air, Fantastic Beasts franchise) star as Allie and Owen, two love-starved strangers who crash into each other in an ever-so-slightly fictionalized New York City on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex. Recently dumped Owen and hopeful romantic Allie might be the only two singles in the city looking for more than just a quick encounter. They both feel a spark when they meet, but a series of missteps and side quests complicate their night, keeping them apart. As they each race toward and away from each other across the city, they just might discover that the one thing they want most is closer than they think.
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Canonical reviews: 160
Canonical fresh: 74
Canonical rotten: 86
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 46%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-17 12:29:22
Snapshot Tomatometer: 46%
Snapshot review count: 160
Snapshot fresh count: —
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Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2848 (delta_update)
| Company | Role |
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| Universal Pictures | distributor |
| Billing | Name | Character |
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| 1 | Monica Barbaro | Actor |
| 2 | Callum Turner | Actor |
| 3 | Maya Hawke | Actor |
| 4 | Julia Fox | Actor |
| 5 | King Princess | Actor |
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| 2705 | 2026-08-12 03:57:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-12 08:57:20 | 46% | 142 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 2 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=2, fresh=2, rotten=0, tomatometer=100%. Net new reviews added=2, fresh=2, rotten=0. Current canonical totals=142 reviews, 66 fresh, 76 rotten, tomatometer=46% (46.479%). Entered headline matched current canonical totals (142 reviews, 46%). |
| 2697 | 2026-08-11 03:19:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-11 08:19:54 | 45% | 140 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 9 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=9, fresh=5, rotten=4, tomatometer=56%. Net new reviews added=9, fresh=5, rotten=4. Current canonical totals=140 reviews, 64 fresh, 76 rotten, tomatometer=46% (45.714%). WARNING: entered headline 140 reviews / 45% did not match current canonical totals 140 reviews / 46%. |
| 2694 | 2026-08-10 13:32:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-10 18:32:33 | 44% | 131 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 2 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=2, fresh=0, rotten=2, tomatometer=0%. Net new reviews added=2, fresh=0, rotten=2. Current canonical totals=131 reviews, 59 fresh, 72 rotten, tomatometer=45% (45.038%). WARNING: entered headline 131 reviews / 44% did not match current canonical totals 131 reviews / 45%. |
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| 2668 | 2026-08-09 05:35:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-09 10:35:29 | 46% | 126 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 9 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=9, fresh=1, rotten=8, tomatometer=11%. Net new reviews added=9, fresh=1, rotten=8. Current canonical totals=126 reviews, 58 fresh, 68 rotten, tomatometer=46% (46.032%). Entered headline matched current canonical totals (126 reviews, 46%). |
| 2663 | 2026-08-08 07:12:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-08 12:12:07 | 49% | 117 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 2 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=2, fresh=1, rotten=1, tomatometer=50%. Net new reviews added=2, fresh=1, rotten=1. Current canonical totals=117 reviews, 57 fresh, 60 rotten, tomatometer=49% (48.718%). Entered headline matched current canonical totals (117 reviews, 49%). |
| 2651 | 2026-08-08 01:23:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-08 06:23:05 | 49% | 115 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 49 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=49, fresh=21, rotten=28, tomatometer=43%. Net new reviews added=49, fresh=21, rotten=28. Current canonical totals=115 reviews, 56 fresh, 59 rotten, tomatometer=49% (48.696%). Entered headline matched current canonical totals (115 reviews, 49%). |
| 2628 | 2026-08-06 13:12:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-06 18:12:57 | 53% | 66 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 1 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=1, fresh=1, rotten=0, tomatometer=100%. Net new reviews added=1, fresh=1, rotten=0. Current canonical totals=66 reviews, 35 fresh, 31 rotten, tomatometer=53% (53.030%). Entered headline matched current canonical totals (66 reviews, 53%). |
| 2624 | 2026-08-06 12:12:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-06 17:12:57 | 52% | 65 | processed | Mode=delta_update. Processed 1 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=1, fresh=1, rotten=0, tomatometer=100%. Net new reviews added=1, fresh=1, rotten=0. Current canonical totals=65 reviews, 34 fresh, 31 rotten, tomatometer=52% (52.308%). Entered headline matched current canonical totals (65 reviews, 52%). |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
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| 244738 | Candice McMillan | Seattle Refined | Fresh | — | 2026-08-16T19:57:05.000Z | 2026-08-16 19:57:05 | Though One Night Only fails to fill plenty of holes in its shaky set-up, viewers are willing to forgive the fascist turn for the fun that the film is eager to have. |
| 244739 | Tara McNamara | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 4/5 | 2026-08-15T23:26:16.000Z | 2026-08-15 23:26:16 | A sex comedy where no one's having sex isn't unheard of, but in director Will Gluck's fresh take, literally everyone is having sex except for the main characters. |
| 244740 | Jeffrey Harris | 411mania | Rotten | 5/10 | 2026-08-15T18:44:55.000Z | 2026-08-15 18:44:55 | One Night Only features two strong leads and an intriguing dystopian premise. However, Will Gluck's traditional rom-com sensibilities never truly gel with the high-concept setup. |
| 244741 | Leigh Paatsch | Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2026-08-14T23:12:13.000Z | 2026-08-14 23:12:13 | Put simply, you want these two to get together, and you’ll happily stick around to watch them dance the will-they-or-won’t-they tango until the right outcome is achieved. |
| 244742 | Sankeerthna Vedamtam | MovieJawn | Rotten | — | 2026-08-14T21:37:57.000Z | 2026-08-14 21:37:57 | This is weird. This is a strange premise, period, for the present moment. We don’t need a hypothetical "in a world, where [insert quirky doomsday scenario here]". To quote a very wise pirate, we’re living in one. |
| 244743 | Nikki Gemmell | The Australian | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2026-08-14T21:15:23.000Z | 2026-08-14 21:15:23 | One Night Only feels obediently, deadeningly, pro-abstaining. |
| 244744 | Deniz Arslan | Battle Royale With Cheese | Rotten | 5/10 | 2026-08-14T19:47:36.000Z | 2026-08-14 19:47:36 | One Night Only dresses up an ordinary rom-com in a dystopian premise, but its empty world and political passivity leave the film with little to say. |
| 243224 | Leo Brady | AMovieGuy.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2026-08-14T07:40:01.000Z | 2026-08-14 07:40:01 | One Night Only has to be the strangest movie of 2026. |
| 243225 | Scott Mendelson | The Outside Scoop (Substack) | Rotten | 3/10 | 2026-08-14T00:22:06.000Z | 2026-08-14 00:22:06 | An otherwise harmless romantic comedy kneecapped by its gloves-off treatment of its frighteningly plausible premise, the Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner-led release is scarier than any 'Purge' movie |
| 243226 | Daniella Mazzio | In Review Online | Rotten | — | 2026-08-14T00:01:34.000Z | 2026-08-14 00:01:34 | One Night Only misses the mark on why people are struggling to form connections, exhibiting a moral haughtiness that suggests the fault is in the individual for giving it away too soon. |
| 243227 | Graeme Tuckett | The Post NZ | Rotten | 2/5 | 2026-08-13T23:24:06.000Z | 2026-08-13 23:24:06 | In fact this gets nearly everything right - I'd watch Barbaro and Turner read the phone book to each other - but setting the film in this nonsensical idea of a fascist police state, I reckon Gluck and writer Travis Braun have misread the room terribly. |
| 243228 | Jake Wilson | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | 3/5 | 2026-08-13T20:17:09.000Z | 2026-08-13 20:17:09 | This kind of furtive conservatism is starting to look like a Gluck signature... Fortunately, he knows how to maintain the kind of fun, busy surface that distracts us from overthinking, as well as how to get the most from his leads. |
| 243229 | Thelma Adams | AARP Movies for Grownups | Fresh | 4/5 | 2026-08-13T17:24:16.000Z | 2026-08-13 17:24:16 | Smart and silly, with yummy stars, One Night Only is this summer’s most charming rom-com. |
| 243230 | M.V. Moorhead | Less Hat, Moorhead | Fresh | — | 2026-08-13T16:58:47.000Z | 2026-08-13 16:58:47 | Turner is winning in his nice guy role; he has a touch of Channing Tatum's sweetness while giving off a sharper sense of intelligence. But One Night Only truly serves as a showcase for Barbaro. |
| 243231 | Mark Jackson | Epoch Times | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2026-08-12T23:36:48.000Z | 2026-08-12 23:36:48 | It's fun despite the silly premise, has believable romantic chemistry between the two leads, and an exceptional amount of adorableness from Monica Barbaro. |
| 243232 | Tina Kakadelis | Beyond the Cinerama Dome | Rotten | — | 2026-08-12T22:32:08.000Z | 2026-08-12 22:32:08 | Much of One Night Only feels like it’s fighting against itself. |
| 243233 | Margot Harrison | Seven Days (VT) | Rotten | 4/10 | 2026-08-12T18:47:53.000Z | 2026-08-12 18:47:53 | Let’s just say it: “The Purge but for sex” is a terrible idea for a rom-com. Nothing kills a flirty buzz like a fascist regime that removes citizens’ bodily autonomy. |
| 243234 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2026-08-12T16:08:45.000Z | 2026-08-12 16:08:45 | Boasting lots of salty language and a surprisingly sweet ending, this likeable love lark seems on its surface to be a raunchy comedy, yet what makes it satisfying is what bubbles beneath the facades of the two gorgeous leads. |
| 239225 | Rick Bentley | KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA) | Fresh | B | 2026-08-11T16:21:37.000Z | 2026-08-11 16:21:37 | Turner doesn’t hurt the project, but he only fully embraces the loveable parts of his character until it is late in the film. The fact it happens makes the romantic comedy work, but his role is nowhere as pivotal as that played by Barbaro. |
| 239226 | Peter Gray | The AU Review | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2026-08-11T09:32:57.000Z | 2026-08-11 09:32:57 | Sexy, consistently funny and unexpectedly lovely; a reminder that the best romantic comedies don’t just make you wait for two people to kiss. They make you care whether they do. |
| 238425 | Rua Fay | Cinemasters | Rotten | — | 2026-08-11T04:02:38.000Z | 2026-08-11 04:02:38 | One Night Only is both technically and creatively bankrupt. It is enjoyable solely if it is consumed ironically, accompanied by a bottle of wine. |
| 238426 | Aisha Harris | Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) | Rotten | — | 2026-08-11T00:18:10.000Z | 2026-08-11 00:18:10 | This is a dystopian sex romcom with no real bite, very little sex, but with a lot of very obvious hangups about sex that are not ultimately resolved. |
| 238427 | Linda Holmes | Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) | Rotten | — | 2026-08-11T00:15:36.000Z | 2026-08-11 00:15:36 | I am not against a high-concept romcom. ... But to me, this movie did not need its high concept at all and doesn't do anything with it at all. |
| 238428 | Rick Hong | Film Threat | Fresh | 9/10 | 2026-08-10T22:43:36.000Z | 2026-08-10 22:43:36 | There are a lot of fun hijinks to enjoy, and I laughed quite a bit. |
| 238429 | Perri Nemiroff | Perri Nemiroff (YouTube) | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2026-08-10T22:16:36.000Z | 2026-08-10 22:16:36 | Monica Barbaro & Callum Turner shine, but a surface-level exploration of this concept just doesn't sit right. |
| 238430 | Meredith Haggerty | The Verge | Fresh | — | 2026-08-10T21:55:36.000Z | 2026-08-10 21:55:36 | It is surprisingly amusing, though, if you can quiet your disbelief to only one to two cries of “Really?? This??” per minute. The movie has sort of misfired David Wain energy, with some truly unexpected gags and pleasantly silly set pieces. |
| 238431 | Alci Rengifo | Entertainment Voice | Fresh | — | 2026-08-10T21:21:28.000Z | 2026-08-10 21:21:28 | As a date movie, “One Night Only” knows what it is and will satisfy its target audience. |
| 238432 | Dustin Rowles | Pajiba | Fresh | — | 2026-08-10T21:07:03.000Z | 2026-08-10 21:07:03 | A bad romcom elevated by magnificent leads and great chemistry. In other words, turn green for the leads; stay red on the script. |
| 238433 | James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Fresh | 3/4 | 2026-08-10T20:26:39.000Z | 2026-08-10 20:26:39 | Ultimately, the film works because we actively root for these two characters to become a couple—the ultimate goal of any true rom-com—and the parallelism of their misadventures is frequently amusing and sometimes genuinely funny. |
| 238414 | Alison Foreman | IndieWire | Rotten | C- | 2026-08-10T17:30:05.000Z | 2026-08-10 17:30:05 | Building an entire romance around that premise demands considerably more compassion and intellectual ambition than Gluck offers Braun’s material. That’s a shame for everyone involved, audiences especially. |
| 238415 | Adam Nayman | The Ringer | Rotten | — | 2026-08-10T17:28:31.000Z | 2026-08-10 17:28:31 | Fusing prudishness to subversion and smugness to sincerity, One Night Only operates precisely and obliviously as the punch line to its own cautionary tale; it feints left and swipes right. |
| 238412 | Murjani Rawls | Substream Magazine | Rotten | — | 2026-08-10T12:34:13.000Z | 2026-08-10 12:34:13 | "One Night Only" deduces that in order to combat a sensitive subject, we will willingly subside into a surveillance state where pleasure is microdosed, commodified, and Sarah Bareilles’s "Brave" is remixed to sell you meds. |
| 236768 | Brittany Frederick | TVBrittanyF.com | Fresh | A- | 2026-08-10T03:50:54.000Z | 2026-08-10 03:50:54 | One Night Only is the charming surprise of the summer. The movie has far more to offer than its quirky premise, starting with lively performances from leads Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. |
| 236769 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Rotten | — | 2026-08-10T02:39:06.000Z | 2026-08-10 02:39:06 | A great premise is wasted on two boring characters with almost no chemistry and will leave you doubting whether Turner is even attractive even if you came in a fan or Barburo can even sing. |
| 236734 | Sean P. Means | The Movie Cricket | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2026-08-09T04:00:56.000Z | 2026-08-09 04:00:56 | Usually, someone at the studio or among the producers would strangle a bad idea like this one in the crib, rather than feed it and let it grow into a full-scale terrible movie. |
| 236735 | Andrew Parker | The Gate | Rotten | 5/10 | 2026-08-08T20:53:07.000Z | 2026-08-08 20:53:07 | I laughed, and I admire the things that work, but this movie is an obvious mess that either wasn’t thought through enough before it went to camera or it had too much cut from it along the way. |
| 236736 | Alise Chaffins | The Dominion Post | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2026-08-08T18:52:44.000Z | 2026-08-08 18:52:44 | if you're going to make (no sex) the cornerstone of your entire film, you had better be willing to engage with the seriousness of what that means for real. Instead, this movie uses this fascistic setup for a cutesy rom-com that is itself a disappointment. |
| 236737 | Rick Romancito | The Taos News | Fresh | C | 2026-08-08T17:27:42.000Z | 2026-08-08 17:27:42 | Starting with its lame title, the movie unspools like a watered down version of Martin Scorsese’s edgy dark comedy, "After Hours" (1985) and James DeMonaco’s ultraviolent horror picture "The Purge" (2013). |
| 236738 | Michael Ward | Should I See It | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2026-08-08T17:12:46.000Z | 2026-08-08 17:12:46 | ...funny, charming, and pretty good company for a while. But the longer you spend with it and get to know it a little more, you realize this is not nearly as interesting a hang as it first convinced you it would be. |
| 236739 | Maxance Vincent | The Cosmic Circus | Rotten | 1/5 | 2026-08-08T16:49:10.000Z | 2026-08-08 16:49:10 | A romantic comedy that is neither romantic nor funny. |
| 236740 | Tim Stevens | The Spool | Rotten | — | 2026-08-08T16:41:01.000Z | 2026-08-08 16:41:01 | As a movie taken entirely on its own merits without any real-world context or baggage, it’s pretty good. Sadly, there’s still the film’s politics. |
| 236741 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2026-08-08T15:00:27.000Z | 2026-08-08 15:00:27 | Barbaro and Turner give it their all and have some pretty decent chemistry. But they’re in desperate need of better material. And no matter how hard they try, there’s just too much for them to overcome. |
| 236742 | Erik Childress | Movie Madness Podcast | Rotten | 0/4 | 2026-08-08T14:27:30.000Z | 2026-08-08 14:27:30 | One of the very worst of the year fails to engage with a wide range of implications built out of its Purge-ish premise. Putting that all inside it is neither funny, charming, clever or romantic. Just subservient to its one-joke idea like its characters. |
| 236720 | Ridge Harripersad | CGMagazine | Fresh | 7.5/10 | 2026-08-08T09:23:31.000Z | 2026-08-08 09:23:31 | One Night Only brought a rare wild and fun romance-comedy vibe, which many new rom-coms have been lacking. |
| 236721 | Anthony Morris | It's Better in the Dark | Rotten | 3/5 | 2026-08-08T08:29:34.000Z | 2026-08-08 08:29:34 | One Night Only's big problem is one that's ruined a lot of casual sex: overthinking it. |
| 236628 | Jeanne Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Rotten | — | 2026-08-08T04:58:14.000Z | 2026-08-08 04:58:14 | ONE NIGHT ONLY is passable as a rom-com that would make for an interesting date night. Gluck and Braun's decision to play it safe is unsatisfying. |
| 236629 | David Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Fresh | — | 2026-08-08T04:55:28.000Z | 2026-08-08 04:55:28 | ONE NIGHT ONLY, upon reflection, is a movie that grew on me. |
| 236630 | Abby Olcese | The Pitch | Fresh | — | 2026-08-08T00:26:31.000Z | 2026-08-08 00:26:31 | One Night Only is going for neither profound nor spectacular. It’s going for warm and fun. It mostly achieves that, even if it is under really bizarre circumstances. |
| 236631 | Robert Horton | The Scarecrow | Fresh | 3/4 | 2026-08-08T00:03:10.000Z | 2026-08-08 00:03:10 | I enjoyed the momentum, and the sense of a zany adventure unfolding to a countdown clock. |
| 236632 | Alonso Duralde | Breakfast All Day | Rotten | — | 2026-08-07T23:40:17.000Z | 2026-08-07 23:40:17 | This is a weirdly, creepily, conservative anti-sex movie masquerading as a saucy rom-com. |
| 236633 | Stephanie Zacharek | TIME Magazine | Fresh | — | 2026-08-07T21:59:37.000Z | 2026-08-07 21:59:37 | This is a great New York movie, one that captures all the beauty and dumb grit of this fantastic, weird city. |
| 236634 | Robert Kojder | Flickering Myth | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2026-08-07T21:04:31.000Z | 2026-08-07 21:04:31 | Not only do the characters inhabit a world of brainwashing, but this regressive rom-com itself is also intent on doing that |
| 236635 | Codie Allen | fade in, breathe out (Substack) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2026-08-07T20:51:25.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:51:25 | One Night Only is messy, charming, occasionally ridiculous, and a little too much at times — but it has enough heart to win you over. |
| 236636 | Louis Skye (Ronita Roy Mohan) | Stereo Geeks (Podcast) | Fresh | — | 2026-08-07T20:38:15.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:38:15 | Every moment of this film was enjoyable — bar one gross scene... One Night Only is hilarious, a complete escape from the real world, and is powered by such natural and realistic performances, it doesn’t even feel like watching a film. |
| 236637 | Anna Iovine | Mashable | Rotten | — | 2026-08-07T20:37:29.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:37:29 | If I turned my brain off, One Night Only would be a funny movie with heart. |
| 236638 | Wendy Lee Szany | The Movie Couple | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2026-08-07T20:35:29.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:35:29 | One Night Only ultimately won me over with its charm. It embraces its ridiculous premise, pokes fun at the societal rules it creates, and never loses sight of the romance at its center |
| 236639 | Charles Bramesco | Little White Lies | Fresh | 5/5 | 2026-08-07T20:27:41.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:27:41 | Seldom does a film offer this much food for thought with no intention of eating any for itself, leaving us to gorge. Sex Purge is, in a final analysis, mostly fine; it also demands fifty sequels. |
| 236640 | Peter Travers | The Travers Take | Rotten | 2/4 | 2026-08-07T20:18:24.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:18:24 | Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner can’t fight a misfired sex farce that douses their very real sparks in a blanket of bland that’s repetitive and annoying x infinity |
| 236641 | Gissane Sophia | Lady Geeks Media | Fresh | — | 2026-08-07T20:13:38.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:13:38 | It’s a one-time watch at best, solely for how gripping the performances are, but everything else sadly comes at the wrong place and time. |
| 236642 | Rachel Wagner | Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) | Fresh | — | 2026-08-07T20:03:57.000Z | 2026-08-07 20:03:57 | A very sexy film and a clever concept |
| 236643 | Jake Coyle | Associated Press | Rotten | 2/4 | 2026-08-07T19:18:43.000Z | 2026-08-07 19:18:43 | One Night Only isn’t bawdy or trenchant enough for its concept or quite sweet enough for its romance. It’s more successful as a meta comedy about a pair of charismatic Hollywood stars reckoning with their onscreen sex appeal. |
| 236644 | Adam Graham | Detroit News | Fresh | B | 2026-08-07T19:10:03.000Z | 2026-08-07 19:10:03 | Director Will Gluck focuses on the chemistry between his two insanely hot leads and uses the particulars of his premise as obstacles for them to overcome, and scores a winner of a summertime comic romance. |
| 236645 | Ruth Maramis | FlixChatter Film Blog | Fresh | 3/5 | 2026-08-07T18:51:10.000Z | 2026-08-07 18:51:10 | Barbaro is luminous in this absurd, frenetically paced rom-com with a polarizing twist. While the premise may seem novel, all the genre tropes are there, and you can see what’s about to happen a mile away. |
| 236646 | Frank Wilkins | Reel Reviews | Rotten | 2/5 | 2026-08-07T18:16:36.000Z | 2026-08-07 18:16:36 | Wastes a wonderfully bonkers premise on a flat, repetitive rom-com that never commits to being outrageous, romantic, or insightful. And that's the greatest disappointment of all. |
| 236647 | Micheal Compton | Bowling Green Daily News | Rotten | F | 2026-08-07T18:09:14.000Z | 2026-08-07 18:09:14 | It’s a film that should have never gotten past the initial pitch meeting. It would be way more interesting to see a behind the scenes documentary on why people would agree to make this than the actual final product — which is just sad to watch. |
| 236648 | Kimberley Jones | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | 1/5 | 2026-08-07T17:32:23.000Z | 2026-08-07 17:32:23 | One Night Only isn’t a romantic comedy. It’s a dystopian horror. |
| 236649 | Sean Burns | Spliced Personality (Substack) | Rotten | — | 2026-08-07T17:25:14.000Z | 2026-08-07 17:25:14 | A lot of the online nitpicking reminds me of a regular at my old bookstore who used to scream about how 'Star Trek' was bad because 'their system of currency makes no sense.' |
| 236650 | Carla Meyer | San Francisco Chronicle | Rotten | 2/4 | 2026-08-07T17:24:06.000Z | 2026-08-07 17:24:06 | It succumbs to the usual tropes, like keeping our leads apart for most of the movie. |
| 236651 | M.N. Miller | Geek Vibes Nation | Fresh | 6/10 | 2026-08-07T17:06:12.000Z | 2026-08-07 17:06:12 | One Night Only's first 95 minutes are sexy and funny, with a script that delivers strong build-up but, in its final moments, chooses to abstain, resulting in a chaste climax and limp finish. |
| 236652 | Rachel Ho | Exclaim! | Fresh | 7/10 | 2026-08-07T17:00:04.000Z | 2026-08-07 17:00:04 | One Night Only can easily be criticized for simply gesturing at important questions with no interest in even analyzing, let alone answering, anything. I suggest that this is the point. |
| 236653 | Steven Prokopy | Third Coast Review | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2026-08-07T15:26:36.000Z | 2026-08-07 15:26:36 | The movie is sometimes fun; but more often, it's a missed opportunity to have two beautiful leads get fully raunchy. |
| 236654 | Jesse Hassenger | SportsAlcohol | Fresh | B- | 2026-08-07T15:17:29.000Z | 2026-08-07 15:17:29 | The movie’s ambitions and old-fashioned small-c conservatism never feel fully resolved, and that’s what gives the movie some unexpected friction. |
| 236655 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Rotten | — | 2026-08-07T15:15:17.000Z | 2026-08-07 15:15:17 | Amid its zany energy and screwball mayhem, the film is doomed by a morally dubious premise that wants to be edgy but winds up as a real turn-off. |
| 236656 | Eric Marchen | Rogers TV | Rotten | C | 2026-08-07T14:57:32.000Z | 2026-08-07 14:57:32 | Fascism renders One Night Only flaccid and unfunny. |
| 236657 | Sean Collier | Table Magazine | Rotten | 4/10 | 2026-08-07T14:15:11.000Z | 2026-08-07 14:15:11 | The film either hasn’t chosen a point of view or has settled on a poor one. |
| 236658 | Nate Adams | The Only Critic | Rotten | D+ | 2026-08-07T13:54:47.000Z | 2026-08-07 13:54:47 | The logistical hurdles become so overwhelming that they eventually swallow the entire movie. |
| 236659 | Scott Tobias | The Reveal | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2026-08-07T13:08:19.000Z | 2026-08-07 13:08:19 | The film bends toward a prudish, heteronormative attitude about casual hook-ups that is unmistakably pro-mandate. |
| 236660 | Doug Jamieson | The Jam Report | Fresh | 3/5 | 2026-08-07T08:48:04.000Z | 2026-08-07 08:48:04 | The screenplay repeatedly undermines its own ambitious concept. But the central romance is so warm, funny, and emotionally convincing that it ultimately overcomes many of the film's shortcomings. |
| 236661 | Dana Barbuto | Boston Movie News | Rotten | C | 2026-08-07T07:11:46.000Z | 2026-08-07 07:11:46 | Hard no. |
| 236662 | Joseph Robinson | Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2026-08-07T02:19:29.000Z | 2026-08-07 02:19:29 | A charming cast is the only thing making this ludicrous story watchable—a movie so afraid of having a point of view it borders on abstinence propaganda. |
| 236663 | Russ Simmons | KKFI-FM (Kansas City) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2026-08-07T02:03:04.000Z | 2026-08-07 02:03:04 | There are a few clever moments but "One Night Only" can never overcome its inherent phoniness. |
| 236664 | Mark Meszoros | The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2026-08-07T01:06:15.000Z | 2026-08-07 01:06:15 | As "One Night Only" works its way to its predictable if also necessary conclusion, it does so a little clumsily, but overall the movie is solid work from Gluck. |
| 236665 | Kristian M. Lin | Fort Worth Weekly | Fresh | — | 2026-08-07T00:30:42.000Z | 2026-08-07 00:30:42 | Director Will Gluck has a feel for the snappy tone and farcical rhythms that this piece needs. |
| 236666 | Tom Meek | Cambridge Day | Rotten | 2/4 | 2026-08-07T00:27:39.000Z | 2026-08-07 00:27:39 | Turner and Barbaro are likable enough, but the punch-through by director Will Gluck (“Peter Rabbit”) and writer Travis Braun never gets steamy or sassy enough. |
| 236667 | Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service | Rotten | 2/4 | 2026-08-07T00:06:57.000Z | 2026-08-07 00:06:57 | Turner and Barbaro give it their best, but not even their charisma can reliably bolster the inherent structural flaws of this concept and its execution. "One Night Only" needed to go back to the drawing board. |
| 236668 | Alison Willmore | New York Magazine/Vulture | Rotten | — | 2026-08-07T00:01:27.000Z | 2026-08-07 00:01:27 | I don't think it's possible to separate the rom or the com of One Night Only from its context, but the movie is not very good at either. |
| 236669 | Rachel West | That Shelf | Fresh | — | 2026-08-06T23:44:03.000Z | 2026-08-06 23:44:03 | One Night Only takes a self-aware and absurd premise and literally runs with it, giving audiences a fresh and frankly funny take on sex and dating in a bizarro near-future New York. |
| 236670 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2026-08-06T23:42:41.000Z | 2026-08-06 23:42:41 | The movie isn’t serious about its central couple, and it isn’t serious about its provocative premise, either. |
| 236671 | Elizabeth Weitzman | Time Out | Fresh | 3/5 | 2026-08-06T23:19:57.000Z | 2026-08-06 23:19:57 | One Night Only is so brazenly flirtatious, so determined to seduce, you’ll barely even notice how empty and cheap it feels -- until the end, when you’re left alone again. |
| 236672 | Radheyan Simonpillai | Globe and Mail | Rotten | — | 2026-08-06T21:56:10.000Z | 2026-08-06 21:56:10 | All the wasted breath on One Night Only’s high-concept premise takes away from the romcom of it all and gives back nothing in return. |
| 236673 | Alex Bentley | CultureMap | Rotten | — | 2026-08-06T21:07:24.000Z | 2026-08-06 21:07:24 | A film that could have been uproaringly funny or super sexy or very romantic winds up being none of those things, with each element getting the basic treatment and nothing more. |
| 236674 | Stephen Silver | Splice Today | Rotten | — | 2026-08-06T21:05:27.000Z | 2026-08-06 21:05:27 | For a romantic comedy, it’s surprisingly unfunny—the humor is too dependent on pratfalls and broad physical comedy—and for a movie about sex, it’s not very sexy. |
| 236675 | Robert Denerstein | Denerstein Unleashed | Rotten | — | 2026-08-06T20:09:47.000Z | 2026-08-06 20:09:47 | Gluck (Easy A and Anyone But You) gets good work from his cast, but can't liberate enough laughs from this gimmicky fable. |
| 236676 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Rotten | D | 2026-08-06T19:36:12.000Z | 2026-08-06 19:36:12 | A bad idea, poorly executed...[a] frantically unfunny R-rated raunch-fest pretending to be a charming romantic comedy. |
| 232317 | Branyan Towe | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 3/5 | 2026-08-06T17:32:50.000Z | 2026-08-06 17:32:50 | Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner carry One Night Only and its hysterical, absurd narrative on their backs with their scorching chemistry and amazing performances. |
| 232312 | Nell Minow | Movie Mom | Fresh | B- | 2026-08-06T16:47:40.000Z | 2026-08-06 16:47:40 | A ridicuously silly premise manages to stay out of the way and let the glossy rom-com take over. It helps that the movie itself does not take the premise too seriously. |
| 232306 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2026-08-06T14:28:02.000Z | 2026-08-06 14:28:02 | Like a mash-up of When Harry Met Sally and The Purge, One Night Only’s reluctance to fully engage with its dystopian political premise, it shines when focusing on its stars Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. |
| 232307 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 2/4 | 2026-08-06T14:00:36.000Z | 2026-08-06 14:00:36 | The big question left at the end of director Will Gluck's romantic comedy ... is how much the movie itself believes the fascists are right about this particular thing. |
| 232243 | Danielle Solzman | Solzy at the Movies | Rotten | 3/5 | 2026-08-06T13:47:22.000Z | 2026-08-06 13:47:22 | One Night Only has some genuinely funny moments and strong performances, but its central premise ultimately works against the romantic comedy it wants to be. |
| 232244 | David Crow | Den of Geek | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2026-08-06T13:08:46.000Z | 2026-08-06 13:08:46 | It suggests chasing bliss, if even for a moment, with frothy abandon is an end unto itself. Whether or not that’s the definition of high romance remains debatable, but it is more than enough in these times for a summer night out. |
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