Irish Wish
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 15, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
5
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75
ObserverEmily ZemlerMar 15, 2024
We need silly rom-coms to get through the long, hard days of reality just like Ireland needs tourism dollars after the pandemic, so why not celebrate Irish Wish for the joyous entertainment that it is. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineAmy AmatangeloMar 15, 2024
Irish Wish reaffirms that Lohan still has command over her acting talents. Read full review
70
ColliderMaggie LovittMar 15, 2024
It’s a fun romantic romp, filled to the brim with gorgeous scenery, gorgeous clothing, and beautiful people. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesMar 15, 2024
Despite its minor flaws, "Irish Wish" is as pleasantly diverting as the kind of paperback romance novel Maddie edits for Paul, and just as forgettable. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 18, 2024
All this magical switcheroo plot nonsense is just a formality anyway: everyone who comes to Irish Wish—friend, foe or neutral observer—will have come for Lohan. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsMar 15, 2024
As it smiles and waves to the rest of the genre like a good little rom-com, you may catch a hint of a gleam in its eye and wonder, very briefly; is that who Irish Wish really is? Or did director Janeen Damian and screenwriter Kirsten Hansen just pull off one of the most maliciously untheatrical, galaxy-brain plays of the year? Read full review
60
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldMar 15, 2024
The movie (directed by Janeen Damian and written by Kirsten Hansen) skips over Maddie savoring the outcome of her wish, and shifts right into charming comedy around her confusion, including having no memory about how she got engaged. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 15, 2024
As a rom-com, Irish Wish is more than willing to kiss the Blarney Stone. Yet the chemistry of Lohan and Speleers makes it watchable enough to get by. Read full review
50
Screen RantRachel LaBonteMar 15, 2024
Lohan's latest Netflix movie is an inoffensive rom-com with ample amounts of cheesiness and heart. Read full review
42
IndieWireSamantha BergesonMar 15, 2024
The rom-com genre lives and dies on its tropes, because we love them and they’re comforting, but the lack of originality smarts here. Read full review
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The Irish TimesTara BradyMar 15, 2024
Cartoonishly colourful cinematography brings emerald-tinted sparkle to Killruddery House, Lough Tay, the Cliffs of Moher and other tourist traps. What else? It’s professionally assembled? Everyone has nice hair? Read full review
40
EmpireJohn NugentMar 15, 2024
As a fairy-tale romantic rendering of Ireland, Irish Wish is almost offensively bad; as another rung on the ladder for Lindsay Lohan romcom supremacy, it is almost, somehow, beyond reproach. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreMar 16, 2024
This Irish Wish sits uneasily in the gap between “competent” and “moderately inspired.” Read full review
30
The Daily BeastColeman SpildeMar 19, 2024
Irish Wish is bland, woefully flat, and entirely devoid of laughs, and is a vacuum of charisma when its star isn’t in the frame. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiMar 18, 2024
While the film is a modicum better than the actress’ “Falling For Christmas” last year — such a punishing world, this is — the improvement is also a knock against it. This high-fructose-corn-syrup movie remains air-headed, that’s for sure, but it’s far less campy and therefore a drag. Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeMar 17, 2024
There are no leprechauns in this abysmal romantic comedy. Otherwise, though, pretty much no theme-park Ireland cliche is left unturned. Read full review
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The GuardianBenjamin LeeMar 15, 2024
There is of course more here to remind us of Lohan’s unwavering charm but that’s not quite enough to distract from just how tired and limply written the whole thing is and how depressing it is to watch her still stuck here. Read full review
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