Director Claire Scanlon...gets everyone leaning into their roles, and Deutch is a particular delight.

| Sep 26, 2018

Claire Scanlon's Manhattan meet-cute is a bouncy comedy with plenty to say about modern relationships.

| Aug 24, 2018

It's wildly predictable and a little cheesy. And yet, it's an absolute gem of a movie.

| Jul 24, 2018

Directed by Claire Scanlon, whose background as a comedy editor is felt in every frame of this breathlessly paced feature, Set It Up is...fine. Heck, I'll even say it's good!

Full Review | Jul 19, 2018

Really, though, the movie is cinematic Soylent: flavorless, joyless, and devoid of any surprises. It's a testament to the film industry's years of neglect that we leave feeling full.

| Jul 12, 2018

Set It Up works because it knows the long line of romcoms it comes from.

| Jun 29, 2018

It's not perfect, certainly, but it's an emotional support blanket of a film, an old-fashioned rom-com led by stars with palpitating chemistry.

| Jun 29, 2018

Set It Up is exactly the kind of easy-to-watch movie with attractive New Yorkers that will satisfy that part of you that loves nothing more than eat pizza on a couch and be wooed by a love story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2018

It's a feel-good throwback to Nineties romantic comedies like When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail that left me warm and nostalgic for the simple pleasure of falling in love.

| Jun 26, 2018

Love! Assistants! Wordplay! This film has it all-at least by the standards of a fun, disposable romantic comedy, the likes of which Hollywood rarely bothers to release anymore.

| Jun 22, 2018

While so many recent renditions of the rom-com have tried to upgrade the genre - usually by going the raunchy route - Set It Up feels so purposefully classic and familiar that it plays right into that nostalgic feel-good spot.

| Jun 20, 2018

Right off the bat, Set It Up nails the most important element of the romcom formula: chemistry.

| Jun 20, 2018

Like a classic screwball farce, Set It Up's four leads hurl lines at each other like 60 m.p.h. sliders. It's an unabashed rom-com... So here's our command: more films like Set It Up, please.

| Jun 19, 2018

Set It Up doesn't make any attempts to step outside its genre sandbox - it's content to build a perfectly nice sandcastle right in the middle of it.

| Original Score: B | Jun 16, 2018

Set It Up is a classic rom-com brought to life by a pair of wonderfully well-matched stars who seem to revel in the genre. This is cinematic comfort food, the kind we've been starving for.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 15, 2018

A rare romantic comedy that has its own distinctive look, rhythm, and storytelling voice.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2018

It's the stars who have to work hardest to sell this kind of egg-white confection, and so they do.

| Jun 15, 2018

The sort of strained, protracted romantic-comedy that gives the genre a bad rap.

| Jun 14, 2018

The movie achieves the highest honor for a streaming romantic comedy, which is that it's perfect to watch while eating takeout Chinese food on your couch and also drinking wine that has been in your fridge too long.

| Original Score: B | Jun 14, 2018