Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 5% based on 115 reviews. The critical consensus describes the film as "a lifeless, occasionally creepy movie that gives romantic comedies a bad name". Metacritic rated the film as having "generally unfavorable reviews" and gave the film a score of 27% based on a normalized average of 29 reviews.
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