Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell) are both assistants working late hours for their bosses, in the hopes that this toil will eventually result in the life they’ve pictured for themselves. But faced with increasingly monstrous bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs), the two concoct a suitably zany scheme: Why not set the two taskmasters up with each other and hope that a new relationship, or at least some enthusiastic sex, distracts them from their endless work hours? To its credit, its story of demanding bosses and professional setbacks doesn’t sell a fantasy version of being young in New York. Instead, it sells a fantasy version of watching a romantic comedy set in New York. If Charlie is supposed to be more soulful than he first appears, the screenplay and Powell don’t do the work; instead, he goes from mildly sarcastic to mildly nice, scoring almost no laughs in the process.





Maybe on the page, Elle and Noah have a connection that goes beyond cute crush and animal lust. Helping to bring back the romantic comedy may be Netflix’s first genuine contribution to cinema that goes broader than giving money and distribution to some talented filmmakers—and the promotional push they’re already giving the YA adaptation To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, which isn’t due out until mid-August, indicates they’re committed to the rom-com revival. Why is this coming out now? News this month that even though North has begun playing with makeup, Kanye has now banned cosmetics until she's older. So now this legal brawl will play out in open court? But then pulling out of overstuffed chair and hopefully. What it doesn’t do, despite its charms, is stand out. But Behrens said he doesn’t recall a time when eggs did not hatch. Working two jobs, Cam doesn't have time to be a typical teenager. With the contract calling for Sexy-Nude-sex $1 million in damages payable to Trump each time she violates the terms, the president’s legal team says she could already owe him more than $20 million. In response, Jill A. Martin, a lawyer for Trump’s private business empire, asked a private arbitrator to order Daniels to pay damages to the president.



An arbitrator granted Martin’s request for a secret restraining order requiring Daniels to honor the confidentiality deal. Looks like I’m doing a super secret project for @netflix & @warnerbros that I’m not able to say anything about. It’s based on a novel, and it seems like the kind of material that might work better with the voice and Dirty-Rulet interiority that comes more easily to that medium. Deutch has been better than her material in plenty of movies, but a shopworn rom-com can feel revelatory when it gives a vaguely familiar actor this kind of showcase. The weird thing about The Kissing Booth, which may help account for its seeming popularity, is that it’s kind of smutty, like a Disney movie gone hormone-wild. But the movie itself plays like it was written by a horny 11-year-old attempting to reconstruct past teen romances from memory. Teen sensation The Kissing Booth does it, appropriately enough, by half-assing some pretty basic homework. This may be why both Kissing Booth and Set It Up get away with their share of clunky filmmaking, and are most interesting for their earnest attempts to revive a semi-dormant genre.



Still, there’s something refreshing about Set It Up (and to a much lesser extent, The Kissing Booth): the unashamed embrace of this much-maligned genre. There’s also a surprising amount of sex for a movie that has nothing of value to say on the subject. His lawyers say Daniels has already broken the agreement at least 20 times. The pleasures of watching attractive and/or complicated people fall in love are universal, but with studios mostly consigning romance to weepy melodramas or siphoning it into wan subplots in dystopian science fiction, younger viewers have been, if not denied those pleasures outright, at least forced to seek them elsewhere. In a normal year, a Hollywood studio releases between 12 and 15 major movies; the year’s not even half over, and Netflix has already blown past those numbers—and will probably quadruple them by year’s end, essentially releasing at least one movie a week to its millions of subscribers.