You don't have to relate to their bad choices to understand the bizarre nature of female friendships. Screw The Hangover; Bachelorette is where it's at.

| Aug 13, 2021

The comedy's anarchic tone is refreshing but it leaves little room for heart. You'll laugh, but you might feel a bit hollow inside.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017

We always want women behaving badly, don't we? And damn, are Dunst and Co. good at it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

Bachelorette is very much its own bitter brew, using the comic framework of a botched, coke-fuelled hen night to examine the stinging self-loathing exposed in three women by another's happiest day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2013

Retains that edge regularly removed from more commercially amenable comedies, and the cast make merry-ish ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2013

Not good.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 15, 2013

It flips in and out of its tone too many times. Nevertheless it does have a sourness and a wretchedness that make some moments startlingly real and vivid.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2013

It cuts to the quick with toxic glee, confronting us with a trio of the worst friends you could possibly want at your wedding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2013

The funny stuff is impertinently delightful and honest, and delivered expertly by this female ensemble. Material this hilarious and astute is a rare thing in the few comedies that dare to be dominated by women

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2012

The women's dialogue is pungently ribald but diffuse; too often, shouting and shrieking and gesticulating take the place of engaged performance.

| Sep 17, 2012

A nasty little piece of work -- a phrase I use not with contempt but with grudging admiration.

| Sep 14, 2012

Think "Bridesmaids," but turn the poop to vomit, up the alcohol intake, darken the sense of humor, give Rebel Wilson an American accent and sprinkle some coke on top.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 8, 2012

I don't see why women being as slobby and gross as the guys is such a feminist breakthrough -- especially since, as in Bachelorette, the slobbiness and grossness is witless.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2012

As smart and popreferential as Headland's writing is, it's a little underwhelming when it comes to delivering on laughs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2012

It's a sour, only fitfully funny affair, wasting the abilities of its otherwise talented cast, which includes Kirsten Dunst, James Marsden, Adam Scott and Isla Fisher.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 7, 2012

Even in this dreary, going nowhere role, Dunst is fascinating to watch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2012

Talented actors are wasted in a film that induces more cringes than chuckles as women old enough to know better act like horny sailors on leave, absorb mass quantities of alcohol and drugs, and generally behave horribly.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 6, 2012

Headland works hard to reconcile the wild and the tame; if she never quite gets the balance right, ya gotta admire her bold juxtaposition of overdose-resuscitation gags with lessons on self-loathing and bulimia.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 6, 2012

The lion's share of Bachelorette, written and directed by Leslye Headland, is unnervingly entertaining.

| Sep 6, 2012

For women who find the film grim, I imagine that's because part of it feels true and rare in an American movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2012