Beaches (2017)
  • Network: Lifetime
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 21, 2017
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10

Critic Reviews

  1. The Salt Lake Tribune
    Reviewed by: Scott D. Pierce
    Jan 20, 2017
    60
    The remake's biggest flaw is that it isn't funny. There are tears, but there isn't much in the way of laughs. Lifetime's Beaches isn't bad. For a TV movie, it's pretty good. And if you haven't seen the original, you'll like the remake more. But the younger generation is smart enough to know that the original is better.
  2. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jan 20, 2017
    50
    Perhaps not surprisingly, Lifetime's mostly dutiful remake of the 1988 hit is something of a slog through the first two-thirds, periodically lifted by Idina Menzel's golden pipes.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Jan 19, 2017
    50
    The new Beaches, directed by Allison Anders, is even less substantial as it goes through the motions of a tearjerker. It’s like a CliffsNotes of a CliffsNotes of a melodrama.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Jan 20, 2017
    40
    The Lifetime “Beaches” is a reduction of the original--smaller emotions, smaller performances, fewer songs, shorter running time (about 87 minutes versus 123)--and while that could have been an improvement, it’s not. The things that made the original worth sitting through, whether you were love-watching or hate-watching, are mostly gone.