Nina Starner scored One Night Only an 8 out of 10 for SlashFilm and called it “an absolute delight.” As of Thursday, August 6, the One Night Only reviews sit at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes across 59 counted critics, and at a Metacritic score of 40 from 18. Metacritic sorts those 18 into five positive, eight mixed and five negative, which is about as evenly divided as a wide release gets. Read enough of the One Night Only reviews and the pattern gets almost funny. There was no festival launch, just a New York premiere earlier this week where Andrew Garfield turned up to support Barbaro.