In Beaches, Miss Midler and Miss Hershey wrangle, forgive, embrace, part, and reunite until I found their antics difficult to comprehend, difficult to believe, and finally difficult to bear.

| May 7, 2024

Once in a while it's okay to enjoy a movie for its own sake -- to let it work you over emotionally, to make you cry when you know you're supposed to cry and laugh when you know a laugh is coming. Beaches is such a movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2022

The movie is a must-see for those who love Midler. It is a project that not only allows her to be herself, it demands it.

| May 20, 2022

I prefer Midler in these sorts of roles.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

Beaches celebrates our friendships. And it's not afraid to be schmaltzy.

| Sep 5, 2019

You've seen this four million times before but not with Midler wisecracking and singing and shaking her way through a whole movie -- or with Hershey as a pulp vision of monied beauty.

| Apr 30, 2018

Barbara Hershey is wasted in a boring role.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2018

Beaches, despite its flaws, delivers an appealing message on the enduring quality of friendship.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2018

Anything for a laugh, anything for a tear, and nothing much authentic.

| Mar 23, 2018

As a film, Beaches is a contradictory mishmash of moods and intentions. However, the movie's weaknesses are the record's strengths.

| Mar 23, 2018

Beaches epitomises the sort of triple-strength, three-hankie work you can expect from American women with three names and gives the lie to those who thought they stopped making women's pic heartstring-tuggers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2018

This drama is at its best when Midler gives free rein to her character rather than when it slips into schmaltz.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2018

Beaches is bloodless, and Garry Marshall's direction, which might have given it style, is completely competent and entirely without personality.

| Mar 22, 2018

For all of its insistence on the open, even gushing, expression of feeling, Beaches finally seems a little bit sneaky.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2018

Beaches is a trite, maudlin, and terribly superficial effort of the sub-made-for-온라인카지노추천 quality, an insult to anyone who has ever befriended another human being.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2018

Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey give lively performances, but the screenplay is dreary.

| Mar 22, 2018

Midler's singing is the only pleasant part of the film. The rest of it you've seen and heard before -- and better.

| Nov 8, 2016

Make some popcorn and get out the Kleenex.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Garry Marhsall's unbearabaly schmaltzy and stereotyical melodrama contrasts a brassy Jewish singer with an elegant WASPy socialite that even actresses like Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey cannot elevate or rescue.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 10, 2010

The film's oily overdefinition of various class and cultural categories is strident enough to betray a condescending attitude toward the audience.

| Apr 7, 2010