The Fabulous Four
Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: July 26, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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10
Negative:
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenJul 24, 2024
The Fabulous Four aims past the formula trappings and, though its misses might be evident, it also hits the bull’s-eye. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonJul 25, 2024
This is sloppier and more personality-driven than [Moorhouse's] past work, but the performances are so shamelessly exuberant that, after a while, you simply throw up your hands at the flaws. Read full review
59
Paste MagazineB. PantherJul 25, 2024
If you’re using “fabulous” to mean fable-like, then The Fabulous Four is in fact fabulous—in that we’ve seen it in too many other stories before. Read full review
58
Original-CinKim HughesJul 26, 2024
Even with its slender premise, sporadic laughs, and abundant clichés, The Fabulous Four is entertaining and unapologetically — almost aggressively — sweet-natured, promoting friendship and female camaraderie while spotlighting a demographic underrepresented on screen and widely considered to have the kinds of dilemmas presented here all figured out by now. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 25, 2024
Genre movies like “The Fabulous Four” can only be so good, but it’s pleasing enough to do its job. Read full review
50
The Associated PressLindsey BahrJul 24, 2024
This is a movie that should have probably leaned far less on wild hijinks with diminishing returns and more into the smaller moments of what it means to be friends for 40 years. But it’s not without its charms, either. Read full review
50
IndieWireSamantha BergesonJul 24, 2024
The Fabulous Four might feel like a series of math problems that don’t quite add up, but it’s still an enjoyable time at the movies — especially if you choose to gobble down gummies at the same rate as the “geriatric” cast of Jocelyn Moorhouse’s raucous comedy. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshJul 26, 2024
This fearsome foursome may be appealing, but the film is beyond formulaic, and far from fabulous. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJul 25, 2024
As an inevitable plot twist leads to an inevitable showdown which leads to an inevitable makeup which leads to an inevitable, and unbearable, all-cast song-and-dance number, you’ll be left wondering how bringing together fabulous women has left us all feeling so utterly unfabulous. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 24, 2024
Sarandon is as close as The Fabulous Four gets to touching on genuine emotion or comedy. . . but the prevailing sentiment is what a shame it is to bring together such entertaining women and then strand them with material so beneath them. Read full review
40
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaJul 24, 2024
Despite the caliber of its cast, “The Fabulous Four” never shakes the feeling that its on-screen talent is being severely misused. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comNell MinowJul 26, 2024
Like these other actresses-of-a-certain-age movies, the entire story is grounded on some notion of a deep and sustaining friendship. But it's hard to believe these women have any genuine connection other than cashing a check for a film that is not fabulous but forgettable. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 26, 2024
Our stars may be timeless, but you should’ve seen them when they commanded more control of their projects than this and could demand the rewrites this tepid typewritten treacle needed. Read full review
34
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiJul 25, 2024
The problem is that not enough of the fun rubs off on us, the audience, to make this experience truly worthwhile. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedJul 29, 2024
The latest example of the humiliations lovely seniors desperately seeking employment are forced to endure in order to call themselves working actors is a dismal comedy without a shred of wit, imagination or originality called The Fabulous Four. Read full review
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