The movie just about works, but everything feels like a missed opportunity to say something more, go a little deeper, or be a touch sharper.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2022

While not the most financially successful of the rash of baby flicks to emerge from Hollywood during the late '80s (that would be Three Men and a Baby), it was arguably the best.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2022

Shyer's direction of actors rises instantly to a level of cartoonish hysteria and descends only for occasional wet bursts of sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 24, 2021

Baby Boom is so far into the realm of fable as to be a cartoon, or a wish fulfillment. It's as if Frank Capra had read Ms. and missed the point.

| Jun 24, 2021

"Baby Boom" is a classic of insipidity, oozing sexual stereotypes from every pore, with dialogue that can't tell the difference between bright and trite and a music score that may give cavities.

| Jun 24, 2021

The script is too coy and calculating. But watching Keaton romp through "Baby Boom" is a special treat.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 24, 2021

The message of "Baby Boom" is so wildly dubious that it s impossible to ignore. When you think of it as only a movie, however (and a slick, manipulative light comedy at that), you have to admit that "Baby Boom" does a nice job.

| Jun 24, 2021

There's just something irresistible about a major star dropping his or her guard and going full-out in the service of a comic romp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2021

Keaton... redeems Baby Boom from the clutches of '40s romantic comedy banality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2021

Nothing in this pseudo-comedy, which resembles episodes from three different sitcoms strung together, remotely approximates real life.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 24, 2021

It's a big bundle of fluff - you don't know whether to sit there and watch or charge the screen and tickle its itsy nose - but it's power-fluff.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2021

This smug exercise seems tailor-made for Keaton, who mugs shamelessly through all the sloppy sentimentality as if rehearsing an Oscar acceptance speech.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 24, 2021

Ultimately, "Baby Boom" is a bust because the writers took the baby out of the boom instead of taking the boom out of the baby.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 24, 2021

I really enjoy this film. It captures feminism in the 80's, early 90s well

| Aug 25, 2020

In addition to Diane Keaton's absolute presence, the film relies on the dialogue and cinematography to achieve its credibility. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 21, 2020

Although the story itself is totally unbelievable, there is, finally, a tenderness between them that is rarely portrayed in film between any two females. It's too bad such a nice touch occurs within the context of a disturbing fairy tale.

| Aug 29, 2019

The only satisfying thing about the ending is that it keeps any more movie from happening.

| Jan 26, 2019

Allegedly pro-feminist, it still defines a woman by the males who influence her, though its mix of cuteness and acuteness makes it one of Keaton's most likeable films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2019

The instantly likeable comedy, Baby Boom, stars Diane Keaton in her most winning performance since Annie Hall and a baby so adorable that even that curmudgeon W.C. Fields would be smitten.

| Jan 26, 2019

It is a startlingly prescient look at the anxieties of motherhood.

| Jan 26, 2019