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
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
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