Yan’s contribution to the franchise is innovative, subversive and entertaining.

| Mar 16, 2025

To sum up Birds Of Prey is a more than serviceable film. The performances of Margot Robbie and Ewan McGregor do allow the film to occasionally have an edge to it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2024

This is without a doubt one of the must-see films of the year that is filled to the brim with stylish and superb filmmaking, thrilling action, engaging characters as well as a brilliantly catchy soundtrack.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Birds of Prey is about a lot more than being a colorful, fun action film–and it is a lot of that, too. This story is themed around sisterhood, identity, and finding independence.

| Jul 8, 2024

Where her beau has settled for becoming an icon for impotent white rage, BIRDS OF PREY breathes new life in a franchise running on empty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2024

Narrative wrinkles like these are hardly a deterrent when the rest of the film is so damn entertaining.

| May 15, 2024

From start to finish, Birds of Prey is a wild ride through the criminal underbelly of Gotham, filled with charming performances from the entire cast. It’s a shining star that justifies the popularity of the genre.

| Jul 25, 2023

With a phenomenal cast led by an outstanding Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cathy Yan delivers some of the best action of the entire cinematic universe in a genuinely entertaining superhero flick.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 24, 2023

The movie is so badly written and so entrenched in its own space that it manages the impossible: to make us dislike Margot Robbie in a character we've previously liked in a previous installment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2023

This film is made to make you laugh as much as it’s made to entertain.

| May 9, 2023

Birds of Prey is a female directed, written, and produced action flick. It’s something anyone old enough to see an R-rated movie can enjoy...

| Original Score: A- | Mar 8, 2023

Next to [2004's] Catwoman, this the most egregious example among superhero films of filmmakers warping established characters to suit their own tastes and ideas rather than giving fans what they want to pay for.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 23, 2023

There's this thing about bad vs. badder that does not help the stakes around anti-heroes or villains movies. This film is a mix of a lot of stuff that separated could've worked, but together is just incoherence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 7, 2023

Abandons the “Why so serious?” tone of its [DCEU] predecessors and instead screams “Let’s put a smile on that face!”

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2022

It’s a flocking good time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

It’s a female-led action-comedy directed by a woman, written by a woman, and essentially about getting on in life without a man. Together those things are an overdue breath of fresh air. But they don’t automatically make for a good movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Birds of Prey is not just a fun film but one of substance and depth.

| Original Score: B | Jul 18, 2022

Birds of Prey employs many of the same visual tricks as Suicide Squad, such as cartoony onscreen titles to introduce its characters, but Yan has more control over her film than Ayer did over his.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 21, 2022

Joker showed that DC is not afraid to take risks. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn) continues that trend and pushes more boundaries.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Outstanding fight scenes, well-crafted characters, and a team of powerful women are at the center of a movie that's both written and directed even better than I hoped it might be. This twisted story, told by one Harley Quinn, is a must-watch.

| Original Score: A | Feb 11, 2022