Half Magic
Momentum Pictures | Release Date: February 23, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 22, 2018
[An] uneven but timely and quite funny feminist satire. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineWes GreeneFeb 21, 2018
The film displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of characters seeking to live by their own feminine-centric rules. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeb 22, 2018
While the pic proves too frivolous to make its satirical and social points fully register, it offers diverting pleasures along the way. Read full review
50
VarietyAmy NicholsonFeb 22, 2018
Half Magic is hobbled by a debut director’s desire to be liked. But Graham’s passion is sincere, even if her tone and rushed pace — the byproduct of cramming in every idea in case she doesn’t get a second chance — teeters on sitcom. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenFeb 22, 2018
As the writer-director's sly gaze shifts into an insistently upbeat appeal for female empowerment, the movie loses its comic steam. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonFeb 22, 2018
Graham has crafted some decent monologues for her characters.... But, even at a hair over an hour and a half, the movie would benefit from a good trim, one that might give the movie’s parallel romantic stories more shape and snap. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 23, 2018
The picture lacks for nothing but big laughs. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisFeb 21, 2018
You could say it’s toothless most of the time. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaFeb 23, 2018
After sitting through this rather unpolished production as it lightheartedly bumbles its way around a serious subject, I mostly wished that I could un-see it. To say that Half Magic, in which Graham also stars, is half-baked would be kind. Read full review
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