English turns what was a lively comedy into a sort of funny melodrama

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2024

[A] fresh, revitalized script that while it celebrates women, still contains no men, retains the core story of Mary Haines who discovers her husband is having an affair with perfume spritzer girl Crystal Allen, but has its own unique twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2019

The problem isn't just the flat script by director and Murphy Brown creator Diane English. It's that this film's raison d'etre seems to be not to entertain, but to sell.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 13, 2018

Despite its good intentions and high hopes, The Women is not a good movie. It does, though, have plenty of nifty slices.

| Aug 26, 2018

The best fun in watching "The Women" is rating who still looks good and whose rose has faded (Carrie Fisher is almost unrecognizable), and ogling the frocks and heels.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2017

Ryan, Bening, Pinkett Smith and Messing play an unlikely foursome of friends, whose origins are never explained, who have nothing in common and no chemistry to speak of.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2017

The 1930s original feels more cutting-edge than this re-do.

| Oct 19, 2012

The cinematic equivalent of yoga-class muzak

| Aug 26, 2009

This is the movie Diane English fought to get made the last 15 years?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 7, 2009

an se pio sygkratimeno (pros harin prosomoiosis realismoy) aytoteles spin-off toy Sex and the City

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 20, 2009

The Women is not perfect, and the best way to enjoy it is as a showcase for some of the top female acting talent of the day.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 26, 2008

...a spectacularly dull film.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 16, 2008

Everything has been smoothed out to the point of tepidity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 26, 2008

The classic 1939 film adaptation... worth seeing again and again. This is not.

Full Review | Nov 5, 2008

I love women in real life but at the movies I hated The Women.

| Nov 5, 2008

A lazy film that makes the most obvious points about the war between the sexes and, as a result, makes the characters much less interesting than they might have been.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 31, 2008

I'm afraid I could neither laugh at, nor take seriously, most of this movie.

| Oct 24, 2008

Containing as much wisdom as it does wit, English's sparkling screenplay takes what was a fairly shallow story and creates a snapshot of modern (albeit wealthy) women's lives.

| Oct 24, 2008

Even a dream cast has to have the right material to work with. As well as a filmmaker who can bring out the best in them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2008

Actually quite an acceptable, enjoyable midrange chick flick that hasn't quite deserved the critical drubbing it has received in the States.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 24, 2008