Sitting in Bars with Cake
Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): September 8, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
2
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonSep 9, 2023
An appropriate mix of levity and devastation, Sitting in Bars with Cake is a heartwarming journey about endless support, friendship, and appreciating life. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicKaely MonahanSep 7, 2023
There's a glut of action-adventure-explosions to choose from, so it's refreshing to see a beautiful, character-driven story that feels small, but oh-so relatable. Read full review
75
The Daily Beast Fletcher PetersSep 7, 2023
Sitting in Bars with Cake is exactly what you think it is from the name alone: a happy-go-lucky coming-of-age movie about people who sit in bars with cake. It is sweet but, like a good cake, never too sugary and indigestible. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerSep 7, 2023
The time spent establishing Jane’s and Corinne’s bond pays off by always keeping their scenes on the heartfelt side of maudlin. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 7, 2023
Though Sitting in Bars with Cake goes in a clearly charted direction, there’s enough going on between the plot points to make it feel like there’s something real at stake between these women. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineAmy AmatangeloSep 7, 2023
What truly makes Sitting in Bars with Cake work are the standout performances from Shahidi and A’zion. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleySep 8, 2023
The cake part of the story feels imposed, a problem since it is the film's organizing principle. It is a tribute to the two young actresses and the supporting cast that this caring friendship survives the artificial cakebarring. Read full review
60
The GuardianAdrian HortonSep 8, 2023
Sitting in Bars with Cake careens from zany bar-hopping to hospital, cake baking ASMR to cancer weepie. You could argue that that’s life itself – a lot of chaos, bathos amid the profound – but that’s giving too much credit to the film’s murkier, underdeveloped bits. Still, it has a lasting bittersweetness to it. Read full review
50
VarietyAmy NicholsonSep 7, 2023
Where Jane feels thinly sketched in pastels, Corrine’s portrait has been detailed in bright permanent markers. A’zion roils with emotions and her character is funny, mercurial, reactive and real. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 13, 2023
The sad stuff works, just not well enough to make tears well up. And wasting Midler and Livingston in middling roles with almost no funny things to say or play is just the icing on the you-know-what. Read full review
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