Most critics warmly receive Only You as an intimate, emotionally mature romance, with praise clustering around Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor. Their chemistry and precise handling of the relationship’s changing pressures are the clearest points of agreement across the reviews. Harry Wootliff’s direction also earns praise for its closeness to the couple, while the treatment of infertility and IVF is widely valued for showing how that experience strains a relationship without reducing either person to their suffering.
The spread is largely positive, with reservations centred on the storytelling rather than the performances. Empire finds some repetition in the middle section, while Little White Lies considers the final act too conventional. Variety likewise sees familiar storytelling, but finds that the leads’ warmth and emotional precision compensate. These are mostly qualifications within favourable assessments, rather than evidence of a substantial split over the film’s merits.