Metacritic reviews

The chemistry makes the movie’s pleasures easy to surrender to, albeit fleetingly.

Sunk by too much schmaltz (even for the Lower East Side).

Evans and Eve are always charming, but Brooke’s real-world problems ring false in a story held together by chintzy fatalism and the logic of a first draft.

Unfortunately, there’s a more potent power present here: dullness.

The setup is so familiar that frustration sets in before the title has barely faded from view.

In fact, very little here is special, despite the individual charms of Evans and co-star Alice Eve.

If you’re going to make an ultra-naturalistic, two-character, walking-and-talking romance that tips its hat to Before Sunrise, the film that began Richard Linklater’s exquisite trilogy, then it’s best to avoid a script loaded with contrived situations and overwritten dialogue.

[A] talky, contrived and ultimately tedious actors’ exercise.

When the script isn't working, Evans turns towards the soundtrack and leans on indie rock when he can (and when the low-budget picture can afford it) to attempt to do some of the emotional lifting.

There's so little urgency, cleverness or romantic comedy zing to this effort from four credited screenwriters (including Oscar winner Ron Bass) that the whole effort seems to run solely on the smiles of its photogenic leads.