Another Simple Favor
Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Original-CinKim HughesMay 1, 2025
Viewers are better served by submitting to the immersive thrill of it all, in the context of a film that doesn’t ask us to ask too much of ourselves. Read full review
70
ColliderNate RichardMar 8, 2025
Similar to the original, Another Simple Favor manages to defy your expectations. It's a sequel that never feels hellbent on just repeating the same plot beats as the first. While it does get too cocky in delivering dozens of plot twists, the sexiness and soapiness are still there. Read full review
70
IGNKatie RifeMar 8, 2025
Another Simple Favor takes its tongue-in-cheek momcore satire to new visual heights by moving the action to coastal Italy. All the best parts of the original are also present here, including Lively and Kendrick’s sparkling chemistry and killer costume design. Not every attempt to expand on the concept is successful, but as a piece of escapist entertainment it’s more clever than most. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineTrace SauveurMar 8, 2025
Feig and company’s extension of the material gleefully indulges in the same silly B-movie theatrics, including but not limited to: murder, extortion, opulent wardrobes, twin confusion, and incestuous relationships. On one level, its self-awareness and love for its own convoluted nature make it seductively enjoyable. On another, it feels like a familiar, less effective retread of ground already well-tread by its predecessor. Read full review
70
SlashfilmRyan ScottMar 7, 2025
This movie veers in some truly wild directions and it's not quite as polished as its predecessor. At the same time, it feels in line with what came before. It certainly doesn't betray the characters or the world Feig has set up. Read full review
70
SlashfilmRyan ScottMar 7, 2025
This movie veers in some truly wild directions and it's not quite as polished as its predecessor. At the same time, it feels in line with what came before. It certainly doesn't betray the characters or the world Feig has set up. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeMay 2, 2025
The first film was divided against itself—half a typically broad Paul Feig comedy, half imitation Gone Girl—and the sequel doesn’t fare much better as a genuine thriller. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMar 8, 2025
Lively is once again fantastic, imbuing this character with a degree of captivating uncertainty that throws off the balance of the film when she’s not on-screen, and the costumes are gorgeous, rising to the level of the stunning scenery. And, once again, the plotting and pacing have a habit of sagging when the film needs to build. Read full review
60
NMENick LevineMay 16, 2025
Another Simple Favour has built up enough goodwill to keep you invested, thanks largely to game performances from Lively and co-star Anna Kendrick. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMay 8, 2025
Another Simple Favour has no aspirations beyond being a quick morsel. And a morsel it is. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraMay 2, 2025
Even the slightest wisp of critical thought will bring the house-of-cards plot tumbling down, but avoid thinking too much and it’s a frothy, sun-drenched bit of fun. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonMay 1, 2025
Another Simple Favor is a two-hour vacation I’m not mad to have taken. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiMar 12, 2025
The fashion alone, from design supervisor Stefano De Nardis and the costume team, elevates the film, turning it into an extravagant spectacle. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMar 8, 2025
Kendrick and Lively have an undeniable chemistry that allows you to buy that these two characters really do like one another, despite the circumstances. But that only matters when those circumstances mean something, and by the end of Another Simple Favor, they don’t — nothing matters at all. Read full review
60
The GuardianAdrian HortonMar 8, 2025
It is neither suspenseful nor thrilling, but something else: a movie so confidently ridiculous, so stylishly absurd and so self-aware of its mandate for fun that you can’t help but enjoy it, reasonable wariness – and all reason, really – be damned. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMar 8, 2025
In reviving one of the more toxic friendships in recent movie history, Feig reunites two stars whose chemistry makes this twisty, often very ridiculous and sometimes trying movie more compelling. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerMar 8, 2025
Though the simplest pleasures of Favor remain—catty chemistry between Kendrick and Lively, loopy twists, bravura statement outfits—the heat powering the concept has cooled to the extent that, despite the increased body count, the sequel feels as perfunctory as its title. It’s just Another one. Read full review
54
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 8, 2025
Seven years is a long time to attempt a reheating of all the many ingredients that made the original film go down so easily, and Another Simple Favor simply tastes off. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 5, 2025
Another Simple Favor feels lazy and overplotted, and it definitely overstays its welcome. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMay 2, 2025
The plot’s a mess, the run time is overlong and ultimately the movie feels like a slew of good actors trapped in a gorgeous place, wearing beautiful clothes and gazing at the impossibly blue water. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 10, 2025
Director Paul Feig brings the same sly approach to this lavish follow-up, but the results feel even more strained than the original, which was often more stylish than deliciously diabolical. Read full review
50
The PlaylistChase HutchinsonMar 8, 2025
Another Simple Favor is a sequel that never makes a case for its existence. It’s many of the same jokes that serve less as callbacks and more as reminders of how much more fun the first film was. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 7, 2025
The Simple Favor films fill a niche, one that they helped create: the knowing synthetic thriller rooted in the angst of contempo motherhood. But this one both diverts and drags on. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 12, 2025
Whatever interest — and laughs (those HATS) — that holds isn’t enough to distract us from guessing plot twists a dozen scenes in advance or from giggling at how Feig and screenwriters Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis stumble through a “How do we END this mess?” debate, one which Feig clumsily slaps on the screen without bothering to edit. Read full review
25
Washington PostTy BurrMay 1, 2025
To paraphrase the T-shirt, everyone here went to the Isle of Capri, and all we got was this lousy movie. Read full review
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