The chemistry between these four fantastic leads fizzes throughout and almost, almost makes up for the rest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Its a fun watch but its not a good movie

| Apr 24, 2024

Book Club: The Next Chapter seems more focused on cashing in on the success of the first film than really investigating the lives of the women they had the audience invest in the first time around.

| Sep 24, 2023

Feel-good exercise in mush.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 13, 2023

Because the story is so weak and the production so uninspired, this attempt at a whimsical wedding adventure has only the four stars to keep it from being a total waste.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 9, 2023

The film can be enjoyed as an utterly delightful travelogue. The story is as thin as a shaved white truffle. The message is to take advantage of a joyous opportunity when it presents itself. Romantic Italy lends an aura of enchantment to the proceedings.

| Jul 18, 2023

Perhaps the best thing that can be said about Book Club: The Next Chapter is that there’s nary a Tom Brady in sight.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 15, 2023

While the sequel isn't as good as the first film, it still has some funny moments and some sweet, sentimental scenes that will bring a smile to almost anyone's face.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2023

There's plenty of eating and loving and praying happening here, although it's the audience that's doing the praying – praying for this movie to dredge up a decent joke for its effervescent stars to deliver, or in lieu of that, for it to end.

| Jul 3, 2023

Book Club: The Next Chapter is the textbook definition of a ‘feel good’ film, and sometimes that’s just enough.

| Jun 28, 2023

Amusing and somewhat entertaining but it seems like something you have already seen - in a different version.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 27, 2023

A light comedy with a lighthearted spirit elevated by stellar performances. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2023

The story is kind of shaggy... it's not well-plotted, there's not enough meat on the story to hold it all together and make it memorable.

| Original Score: C | May 31, 2023

One does not go to a film like Book Club: The Next Chapter for Shakespearean drama that tests the morals of humanity itself, one goes to Book Club: The Next Chapter for innocent and heartfelt fun which the film delivers on excellently.

| May 26, 2023

Book Club: The Next Chapter is a bit better than 80 For Brady.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2023

Book Club’s next chapter is a pleasant Hollywood fairy tale where likeable people in nice outfits go somewhere pretty. The audience that made the first movie a hit won’t mind that one bit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2023

A second serving of broad, frequently sexually charged humor and low-stakes drama. Most important the aforementioned formula is the deep female friendship that keeps the group together and on the move — it’s tons of hugs and a bit of tough love.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2023

This quartet of talented travelers deserve better than this flighty, frenetic, briefly anecdotal fluff, filled with cliched PF-13 double entendres.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 22, 2023

...the picture eventually (and perhaps inevitably) segues into a hit-and-miss, entirely episodic midsection that slowly-but-surely wears out its welcome...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2023

In other words, Book Club: The Next Chapter doesn't offer any new discoveries -- rather, it delivers the idea of Italy that many non-Italians likely already have in their head.

| May 20, 2023