Alongside "The Invite" and "I Want Your Sex," Gluck's film finds room for intimacy in a slide toward fascism.
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Three new films find room for intimacy in a slide toward fascism
Published
August 15, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner in "One Night Only" (Nicole Rivelli / Universal Pictures)
Will Glock’s sensational new movie practically has a Los Angeles heart which is stuck in a New York soul as Callum Turner and…
Sex between singles is outlawed except for one 12-hour window a year in Will Gluck’s high-concept romp, also featuring Maya…
Will Gluck's 'One Night Only’ is a dystopian romcom that, despite the best efforts of Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, is too…
The rom-com imagines a fascistic U.S. that's not too different from the one we're living in.
One Night Only manages to fail as a dystopia and as a rom-com. Meanwhile, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a perfect tale…
Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro star as two strangers who keep running into each on the one night a year when unmarried people…
