If you can make it through the baseball scene in Set It Up without smiling, romantic comedies may not be for you. Harper and Charlie get their bosses on the kiss cam at a Yankees game, the second stage in their attempt to push the two into a relationship and get them out of the office more often. Their efforts seem doomed to fail, their bosses uninterested in sharing a first kiss with a stadium of baseball fans. But the camera keeps panning back to them and the crowd gets interested, booing a mild kiss on the cheek and chanting encouragement. And finally it happens, and Harper and Charlie jump up and cheer at the top of their lungs. Everyone else is staring and thinks they’re crazy, but they are so overjoyed by their success that they don’t care.
Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell are a constant delight as they plot together to set up their bosses, as they banter over pizza and science projects, and as they ultimately fall in love. I identify with Harper’s desire to be a writer as well as her paralyzing fear of writing something terrible, so I’m rooting for her success from the start. Add in gorgeous sets and Pete Davidson and Harper’s excellent wardrobe and Creepy Tim, and you get a funny, romantic movie I’ve seen at least four times–and would happily watch again tomorrow.