Two Night Stand

Yet another would-be charming male fantasy about how even the smartest girls can be charmed out of their pants by a schlubby doofus with a penchant for heavy negging.

A slight but not-unengaging Young Person's Romantic Comedy ...

Featuring strong dialogue and terrific performances, the film has moments of near-brilliance, but falls apart with a lame, conventional ending.

It turns out "Two Night Stand" is a one-act sex comedy badly in need of two more - acts, not nights.

It's hard not to root for this couple - and, more to the point, these actors - to get together again.

As with most romantic comedies, the story falls apart with the formulaic injection of tension and the ensuing resolution, which is utterly outrageous even by rom-com standards.

Teller and Tipton make an appealingly awkward duo and their chemistry compensates for the film's contrived setup.

...it's ultimately the endless charm of the actors that prevents one from checking out completely.

The makers were aiming for a how-we-date-now rom-com. Instead, they've made a film that might have seemed hip 10 years back but now seems dated, cold and cynical.

Though the simplicity of this narrative, and the restricted, confined setting is a unique selling point for Nichols, it's also suffocating, and to the filmmaker's detriment.

This attempt as a latter-day screwball romance, released in time for Valentine's Day, is charming in parts but also contrived.