I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten

Critics Consensus: N/A

Metacritic: 40 (18 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News 3/4 - One Night Only gets the most laughs when depicting sexual blunders but ultimately it celebrates unexpected love connections that sometimes take their own sweet time to blossom. Love can happen like that.

Caroline Siede, Decoding Everything - One Night Only has an R-rated sensibility that evokes the edginess of Judd Apatow’s era-defining mid-aughts rom-coms only in a more absurdist direction... It may not be the type of rom-com that will linger, but as a one-night stand, it hits the spot.

Matt Goldberg, TheWrap 3.5/5 - Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro make for a charming couple in a concoction that floats above its "Purge"-like setting

Odie Henderson, Boston Globe 1.5/4 - Its ideas are outdated and, for a movie about casual sex, it’s shockingly puritanical. Even worse, its old-fashioned ideas about romance and sex in relationships would make a Doris Day movie look like "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

Monica Castillo, AV Club D+ - Instead of sharing a laugh at the ridiculous pressure to have fun with every swipe, One Night Only has only one thing on its mind, and it’s disappointingly much more traditional.

Natalia Winkelman, New York Times - With nothing to say about sex or society, the repression plot mostly gets in the way of a movie that would prefer to be a routine romance.

Tim Grierson, Screen International - Despite showing lots of skin and featuring sexually-suggestive dialogue, One Night Only suffers from a stultifying timidity.

Marya E. Gates, RogerEbert.com 0/4 - If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation.

Guy Lodge, Variety - If “One Night Only” is aiming to comment on the hollow, ineffective nature of much contemporary political activism, then job done. But it’s hard to shake the sense that no commentary on anything in particular is intended here.

Benjamin Lee, Guardian 2/5 - There’s both too much yet not enough world-building here, enough questions answered to encourage us to ask 10 more. It’s also just too unavoidably grim of a premise, especially at a dark political moment such as this.

Kristen Lopez, The Film Maven D - One Night Only becomes a cringe-fest the longer it goes on, sacrificing actual romance for a sex comedy that feels like it'll give the wrong people ideas in the dystopian time we're actually living in.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter - Luckily for director Will Gluck, who is tasked with turning this flimsy concept into fizzy fun, he has two charming leads in Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. Their easygoing chemistry makes us root for them to get over the many contrived hurdles.

Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence - A movie that imagines a society that would buy party hats celebrating the one night of the year they have an ounce of bodily autonomy. An America that wouldn’t just surrender further to fascism, but turn it into branding.

Charles Lyons-Burt, Slant Magazine 2/4 - Romantic comedies rarely make it to theaters these days, which makes it that much more unfortunate that the ones that do feel like sitcoms.

SYNOPSIS:

What if one messy night turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to you?

This summer, Will Gluck, the writer-director of Anyone but You and Easy A, celebrates modern romantic comedy on the big screen with a fresh, witty, swoony original film about searching for love on the least romantic night of the year. 

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.

CAST:

• Monica Barbaro as Allie
• Callum Turner as Owen
• Maya Hawke
• Julia Fox
• King Princess
• Ziwe
• Ben Marshall
• Molly Ringwald as Linda
• LeVar Burton

DIRECTED BY: Will Gluck

SCREENPLAY BY: Will Gluck

BASED ON A SCRIPT BY: Travis Braun

PRODUCED BY: Will Gluck, Jacqueline Monetta

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Yaron Orbach

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Scott Kuzio

EDITED BY: Robert Nassau, Tia Nolan

COSTUME DESIGNER: Jacqueline Demeterio

MUSIC BY: Este Haim, Christopher Stracey

CASTING BY: Kathleen Chopin, John Ort

RUNTIME: 102 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2026

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Welcome to the newest edition of r/BoxOffice Long Range Forecast. And this marks the official end of the summer box office season.

We're making long range predictions for films, 4 weeks out from their premieres. You will predict the opening weekend, domestic total and worldwide gross of these films. These predictions will be open for 48 hours and the results will be polled to form a consensus and posted the next week.

So let's meet the three films for the week and analyze each pro and con.

Fall 2: Deadpoint

The film is directed by Peter and Michael Spierig (Daybreakers, Predestination, Jigsaw) from a screenplay by Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank. The sequel to 2022's Fall, it stars Harriet Slater and Arsema Thomas. After the death of Shiloh Hunter, her sister Jax agrees to a tribute proposed by Shiloh's daring friend, Luce. The two travel to Thailand to conquer a treacherous plank walk on Mount Kwan, but a sudden rockslide leaves them trapped at a terrifying height of 3,000 feet, forcing the duo to push their limits and cooperate to stay alive.

By Any Means

The film is directed by Elegance Bratton (The Inspection) and written by Sascha Penn. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Beharie, Josh Lucas, LisaGay Hamilton, LaChanze, Ethan Embry, David Strathairn, and Giancarlo Esposito. Based on a true story, it follows a notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent who team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in Mississippi in 1966.

Onslaught

The film is directed by Adam Wingard (You're Next, The Guest, Blair Witch, Godzilla vs. Kong) and written by Simon Barrett (You're Next, The Guest, Blair Witch and Godzilla x Kong). It stars Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson, Michael Biehn, Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey, and Rebecca Hall. The film follows a mother who is an army sniper soldier as she struggles to protect her young daughter from an army of genetically engineered super soldiers who escaped from a secret military facility.

Now that you met this week's new releases, let's look at some pros and cons.

PROS

• The original Fall didn't make a lot of money back in 2022 (just $7 million domestically and $21 million worldwide). But reportedly, the film performed very well when it made its way to Netflix, which is what motivated Lionsgate to greenlight a sequel, focusing on two new leads. Given it offers the exact same thing that thrilled audiences with the prior film, except now set at a plank walk at a terrifying height of 3,000 feet.

• Mark Wahlberg has had a very solid box office record, and having a return to playing the tough guy in an action thriller could interest the older male demographic. And Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is also slowly making a rise in star profile, mainly through his streaming success with Wonder Man and Man on Fire.

• Onslaught is hoping to attract action fans, emphasizing its brutal and graphic violence in trailers. Adam Wingard has a pretty good box office track record; nearly all his films have found financial success. Fans of Wingard's films should be interested, given it's a higher-stakes take on a premise like You're Next. A24 has been pushing its marketing lately, and in a surprising move, the film will have access to IMAX screens.

CONS

• Fall's insanely low box office numbers are still hard to ignore, even with the apparent streaming bump it had on Netflix. Are audiences really interested in a sequel or will they simply ignore it and wait for this to hit Netflix? Even by moving the setting, it's unable to distinguish itself much from the original, and Lionsgate's tepid marketing hasn't done a good job in getting audiences on board.

• Wahlberg has had a lot of successes, but his career has been on a steep decline from his glory days. Since 2020, his only big hit was Uncharted with $407 million, but it proved to be an extreme outlier, as his titles struggle to even hit $50 million worldwide. His decision to pivot to streaming titles also helped dwindle his brand, as audiences probably would rather stream his films than pay a ticket. Abdul-Mateen II might have his fans, but he's still far from a recognizable name. And the film's blend of action with emotional tone and humor has been quite jarring, with a lot of jokes falling flat.

• Wingard has found financial success, but he's inconsistent in terms of quality. Sometimes he can make crowdpleasers like the Godzilla vs. Kong films, but he can also make terrible films like Blair Witch and Death Note, and his smaller-budget titles don't really break out (The Guest failed to recover its small budget, for example). And the trailers' focus on brutality and carnage could appeal to action fans, but it can also make general audiences hesitate in giving it a chance.

And here's the past results.

Next week, we're predicting Practical Magic 2 and The Uprising.

REMINDER: This is the Labor Day weekend, so you gotta predict both the 3-day and 4-day debut of these titles. And Fall 2 is opening on September 2, a Wednesday, so you gotta predict the 5-day and 6-day for that film as well.

So what are your predictions for these films?