Owen Gleiberman of Variety calls One of Them Days “a winning throwback to the kind of day-in-the-hood comedy they used to make in the ’90s,” in the same vein as Friday. The screenplay has a “screwball recklessness,” the critic writes, with Keke Palmer commanding the screen and SZA sizzling in her debut. Gleiberman continues:

Keke Palmer and SZA's buddy duo comedy "One of Them Days" hits theaters this week, and we're here to tell everything you need to know about how to watch. The Issa Rae-produced film came together from the CoCre lab at Sony Pictures,

The L.A.-set comedy, which opens Friday, stars Keke Palmer and SZA as two young women with nine hours to find $1,500 to cover their rent before they’re evicted. The Associated P