Life of the Party
New Line Cinema | Release Date: May 11, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
16
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 11, 2018
McCarthy falls into the same trap she did in "Tammy" and "The Boss," the two other movies she wrote with her husband/director Ben Falcone. By that we mean she allows her laugh instincts to get buried in a blanket of bland. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 10, 2018
Falcone’s latest, Life of the Party, is death itself...There’s nobody there to push her, nobody on set with the power and emotional remove to tell McCarthy that they need another take, they need funnier lines, or that her halting line-readings do no make the unfunny script funny. Read full review
29
TheWrapRobert AbeleMay 10, 2018
Whatever Life of the Party needs its star to be, it gives us — frumpy, hot, weird, normal, kind, mean, humiliated, heroic, limber, uncoordinated, sexy, unsexy — in the desperate hope that you’ll latch on to some nugget of McCarthy-patented brazenness and you’ll laugh, as if story and cohesion meant nothing. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 11, 2018
This is not only the least funny movie in which McCarthy has appeared but the tamest and most toothless. Read full review
25
The Associated PressMark KennedyMay 10, 2018
Wandering aimlessly in the well-worn corridors of 1980s puerile frat flicks, Life of the Party wobbles to a predictable end and then sort of finishes without a bang. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMay 11, 2018
Deanna is so irksome that even McCarthy seems to tire of her, and her bumbling, burbling, shy but gregarious persona is often discarded – not as a sign of character development, but because it would get in the way of a gag. Read full review
20
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMay 10, 2018
Life of the Party’s predictable and lethargic box-ticking of scenes (accidentally getting high – check; dance off – check), gives it the unremarkable stench of something you’ve half-watched on cable before. Read full review
12
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 10, 2018
A largely laugh-free exercise in cliche. Read full review
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