It's incredibly contrived and it really shouldn't work, but kind of does.

Meg Ryan is back, in a rom-com! [...] And that idea, unfortunately, is as good as it gets.

Aims to be an adorably quirky romcom but plays out as such a surreally purgatorial ordeal that at one point I found myself wondering, Wait, are they actually dead? Am I? Is this what hell looks like?

For a film that is almost entirely dialogue driven, it gradually loses steam and even the twists that make up the second half of the movie aren’t enough to compensate for this. This is despite strong acting performances from both Ryan and Duchovny.