Instead 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.
The execution here is impressively adroit, with a clever script enlivened by two charmingly compatible lead performances from Rosa Salazar and Adam Pally.
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'Malley
RogerEbert.comSheila O'Malley
The 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.
The 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.
70
Village VoiceSherilyn Connelly
Village VoiceSherilyn Connelly
Charles Hood's Night Owls is a mostly satisfying two-hander that never quite lives up to its full potential.