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\n\tNo doubt Jennifer Lopez<\/a> currently is queen of the failing rom-com genre, a once-vibrant Hollywood staple that studios sadly relegated mostly to streaming in recent times. Of course there have been exceptions that made a splash in theaters, notably sleeper hit Anyone but You in 2024. Generally, though, this isn\u2019t the case, at least for the classic romantic comedy template.<\/p>\n \n\tLopez\u2019s latest Netflix<\/a> confection, Office Romance<\/a>, must have been irresistible for the star since Ted Lasso vets Brett Goldstein<\/a> and Joe Kelly wrote it specifically for her and said they wouldn\u2019t make it unless she was in it. She jumped at the chance, almost certainly because her co-star Goldstein ogles her in this thing like she is some sort of goddess, even upon their first meeting, and getting visibly excited down there just from the mere touch of her hand. In the parlance of rom-coms that is known as \u201cmeeting cute.\u201d I describe that scene with a little more decorum than is played in this film, which never misses a chance to go for outrageous R-rated raunch, rather the kind of sweetness in other Lopez rom-coms like the criminally underrated Marry Me or Maid In Manhattan.<\/p>\n \n\tLopez also gets a step up in societal and business status in this one as a workaholic CEO of an airline, Cruz Air. She is Jackie Cruz, daughter of the company\u2019s founder, Jack Cruz (Edward James Olmos<\/a>, her father in Selena) and looking to make her own mark in the office where personal relationships of the romantic kind are expressly forbidden. Of course that gives this movie its conflict when newly hired lawyer Daniel Blanchflower (Goldstein) shows up to prep the boss on a deposition. <\/p>\n \n\tThe film opens with two separate scenes showing each on a disastrous date, so we know their single status and it is obvious right away where this is all going. That\u2019s even after Jackie berates him for his performance during a deposition, but she later apologizes when it is clear he knows what he is doing. It is only a matter of time before these two workaholics find more in common and even take a romantic getaway to the Dominican Republic. But how do they keep this new relationship under wraps in the office \u2014 especially with Jackie\u2019s planned expansion of the airline into other cities under attack?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tOl Parker is the director here, and he is a filmmaker entirely comfortable in this genre, having made one of the best in recent years<\/a>, the theatrical release Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Now they had chemistry. The bonding here between Jackie and Daniel just doesn\u2019t make me feel it, and for a successful rom-com, you have to feel it. Lopez gets to wear the fashionable clothes, she gets to talk the corporate talk, and by the end she has the \u201ccome to Jesus\u201d moment we have been waiting for in front of all her employees. Fine, but nothing we haven\u2019t seen a lot. As for their chemistry here, Lopez and Goldstein lack the magic formula.<\/p>\n \n\tAlso, Goldstein and Kelly\u2019s script seems wrapped in the well-worn cliches of the genre without offering anything new to the time-honored formula. It is almost like they set out to make a romantic comedy beat for beat from what they have seen before. The raunch in this one also seems out of place. A scene toward the end where the pair end up delivering the baby of a colleague (Betty Gilpin<\/a>) is soooooo over the top (and needlessly graphic) that Netflix viewers might want to switch the channel without finding out how this all ends.<\/p>\n \n\tOh, but we know how it will all end, don\u2019t we? That\u2019s the problem with this all-too-predictable Office Romance. The fault really isn\u2019t in the stars. Lopez and Goldstein, two actors who always are watchable in the right roles, do their thing, but it seems somehow artificial in this package. As for the rest of the cast, Gilpin as colleague and confidante of Jackie just really is way too dialed up, the pregnancy angle thrown in for laughs that just don\u2019t materialize. Bradley Whitford<\/a>\u2018s boss, Peter Vance, also seems disconnected from reality. Tony Hale has a one-dimensional role as head of HR, but his best moments are in the end-credits sequence, which throws in a lot of unused HR gags \u2014 some of them funnier than anything in the movie that preceded them.<\/p>\n \n\tProducers are Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swett, Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Goldstein and Kelly.<\/p>\n \n\tTitle: Office Romance
Distributor: Netflix (streaming only)
Release date: June 5, 2026
Director: Ol Parker
Screenwriters: Brett Goldstein & Joe Kelly
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein, Betty Gilpin, Amy Sedaris, Tony Hale, Rick Hoffman, Jodie
Whittaker, Mary Wiseman, Bradley Whitford, Edward James Olmos,
Tony Plana, Roger Bart, Natalie Ortega, Jackie Sandler, Michelle Hurd, Mo Welch,
Donald Elise Watkins, Brian Gallivan, Ali Stroker, Scott Seiss, Lisa Gilroy, Will Sasso
Rating: R
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