...a breezy comedy that benefits from its smattering of laugh-out-loud funny set-pieces and assortment of agreeable performances...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2024

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is full of hysterics and chaos during every minute of the film.

| Feb 24, 2022

The film, a loose adaptation of the classic childrens book, takes a simple premise and stretches it as far as it needs to go, weaving a little heart in between.

| Feb 11, 2022

Younger kids will likely get a kick out of the bad behavior on display. Kids it ain't, although the Cooper children seem to get away with everything just short of murder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Here is a movie you can take the whole family and they will enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2021

Many of the antics of Alexander and his clan - a likable enough bunch - come across as too processed, too contrived and far too rehearsed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2020

I found that the good triumphing over the bad actually comforting. These series of events bring the family closer together.

| Feb 5, 2020

[A] wonderful, wonderful, laugh out loud, fun-filled family film that just brightens the day.

| Dec 14, 2019

As Alexander, Ed Oxenbould is disarming and charming, but all is drowned out by the film's overwhelming triteness.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 6, 2019

I'd say give it a shot especially if you are having one of those days...

| Original Score: B | May 2, 2019

It's very hard not to like this film. It's energetic, filled with silly, genuine fun, and has humorous beats that will make you smile and possibly laugh out loud.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

Aside from the rampaging kangaroo and burning pirate shirt, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" emphasizes relatable humor families can connect to over slapsticky gimmicks and cheap laughs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 8, 2018

The frustrating thing about Alexander is not that it is a bad film. It's that what we get suggests that director Miguel Arteta could have given us so much more.

| Nov 28, 2017

It's the rare, current kid movie made with real actors. Unfortunately, it's not remotely adult-funny. That's OK. Parents suffer. It's what they do. Go and suffer for the kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2016

And while the problems had are sadly very white and upper class ones, the message is still relevant. It's also rather funny-at times.

| Original Score: C | Feb 26, 2016

The film may be a good way to distract kids for an hour and 20 minutes, but are any of its messages appropriate?

| Oct 8, 2015

I found it genuinely adorable and entertaining.

| Jul 6, 2015

Alexander... etc. isn't exactly a terrible film, but it was definitely in need of a little retooling so that the events plaguing this family weren't quite so unbelievable, annoying, and on the lower end of the comic scale.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 9, 2015

Alexander is funnier than one would expect. In a weird way, it's full of refreshingly cranky, dorky goofing.

| Original Score: B | Jan 9, 2015

This is a good, old-fashioned family comedy. It reminds me of similar live-action films I enjoyed growing up in the early 1990s including Home Alone, Mrs Doubtfire and Jumanji.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 12, 2014