Book Club
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 18, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
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Mixed or average reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
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19
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11
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMay 18, 2018
In an industry that defines “mature audiences” as anyone old enough to vote, a movie centered entirely on women over 65 — a sex comedy, no less — feels like some kind of small Hollywood miracle. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedMay 18, 2018
It’s such a pleasure to see four mature women, more beautiful, glamorous, desirable and pulled together than most of the ladies today who are half their age, share the screen in all their glory that it’s easy to forget how disappointing the movie is. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 18, 2018
Although there are times when the dialogue is downright insipid, it contains enough wit to provoke frequent chuckles (and maybe even a few guffaws – Andy Garcia has a laugh-out-loud one-liner) and the movie quadrupoles down on the romance element. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshMay 17, 2018
This movie is either in your wheelhouse or it's not, but for those looking forward to Book Club, it delivers. For what it is — a breezy bit of Nancy Meyers-like fantasy, featuring four beloved actresses talking about sex, baby — it's exceedingly enjoyable. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaMay 17, 2018
This fairly laugh-packed comedy aims to address the desire for intimate companionship in older adults, an increasingly topical issue as more Americans live into their nineties. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 17, 2018
It has brio, rueful humor and celebratory verve that is nearly impossible to resist. Read full review
70
SlateJeffrey BloomerMay 24, 2018
Book Club may in the end be little more than an excuse for a senior sex comedy, and a somewhat sleepy one at that, but at least it understands the weird energy of enjoying something you know you shouldn’t. Read full review
70
VoxEmily VanDerWerffMay 19, 2018
When the central four women are played by Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen — and the rest of the cast is stuffed with ringers — well, it doesn’t matter if the camerawork isn’t especially vibrant. Read full review
70
Village VoiceApril WolfeMay 19, 2018
Even though it follows the map of every romcom before it, Holderman’s film still offers the too-rare chance to marvel at just how good these women are at their craft, how easily they inhabit the bodies and lives of other people. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineOktay Ege Kozak May 17, 2018
The natural chemistry between the four leads is what gives this material the energy it needs. They all bring their A-game here. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 17, 2018
A chance to see four terrific actresses — let’s not use the gender-neutral term in this context — having varying degrees of fun with matters of sisterhood, sex and hope in a movie that touches on mortality and holds out the prospect of later-life joy. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaMay 17, 2018
As it turns out, Book Club is only tangentially “about” the Fifty Shades trilogy, and that’s what makes it so smart. Read full review
70
TheWrapInkoo KangMay 16, 2018
The cast is just as game for the broad humor as it is for the emotional beats; the latter’s familiarity doesn’t detract from its poignancy. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshMay 16, 2018
This movie is either in your wheelhouse or it's not, but for those looking forward to Book Club, it delivers. For what it is — a breezy bit of Nancy Meyers-like fantasy, featuring four beloved actresses talking about sex, baby — it's exceedingly enjoyable. Read full review
70
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 16, 2018
Bergen is consistently the best part of Book Club: natural, dryly funny, and, in a non-pitying way, quietly heartbreaking. Read full review
65
The AtlanticDavid SimsMay 21, 2018
Book Club is an airy dinner conversation set before a spectacular, disposable backdrop, a sure-fire bet to be the breeziest two hours you spend in the theater this summer. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 16, 2018
Book Club, aka Sisterhood of the Traveling Spanx, stuffs the screen with Oscar and Emmy winning actresses of a certain age and hopes the laughs will follow. And they do, just often enough to make this genial, eye-roller of a farce work. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMay 16, 2018
Book Club is very silly and feather-light, but let me say this: Spending time with this quartet is way more fun than reading “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Read full review
63
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckMay 16, 2018
Book Club has a script that’s often so heavy on the corn — make that corn syrup — that it strains credulity and leaves you groaning. But then, darn it, suddenly it makes you tearful, with an unexpectedly genuine moment, or laugh out loud. It’s a credit to the cast, and the cast only. Read full review
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