An airline CEO and her company lawyer rewrite the HR rulebook in Ol Parker's breezily watchable film, which is amiably carried by its stars — and aggressively stolen by Betty Gilpin.
By Guy Lodge
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©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection There’s no meet-cute in “Office Romance,” but the way its lovers meet is pretty cute just the same. Formidable airline CEO Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez) summons her new company lawyer Daniel Blanchflower (Brett Goldstein) to her office, and he walks in to see what, in cinematic terms, we shall term the full J-Lo: She’s facing the window, bathed in an optimally angled shaft of afternoon sunlight, and turns around to greet him with a perfectly, effortlessly executed shampoo-commercial toss of her caramel-tinted mane. “Holy shit!” he says, and so do we, because, well, that’s J-Lo. Or Jackie Cruz, if you prefer, but Ol Parker’s easygoing romcom is smart enough to blur that divide: It sinks into its star power as one would into a warm bath, and if the appealingly scrappy Goldstein doesn’t match that voltage, that’s largely the point.
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