Sure, it neatly avoids a lot of the fluff found in many chick flicks and replaces it with crass shenanigans, but it adds touching moments when they're needed most, providing for a smart, less clichéd comedy.

| Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2017

Through a combination of smart performances and scurrilous gags Bridesmaids yanks the buddy comedy from the hands of its traditional owners.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2015

The big, brash laughs are coupled with a smart insight into women's friendships.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2015

[Wiig's] is the comedy of panic, paranoia, madness and self-loathing, but her trick in the new film Bridesmaids is to remain composed even as her heart is shredded to confetti.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2015

Unashamedly smart... Bridesmaids has been hailed as a groundbreaking blow for American female cinema. That says a lot about the extent of Hollywood's current conservatism, but for now, Bridesmaids does nicely as a tonic corrective.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2015

The star and co-writer of Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig, puts herself and her female co-stars through the comedy wringer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 2, 2013

Bridesmaids is likely to be a hit with both women and men, being half formula chick-flick, half raunchy comedy of humiliation. It's hilarious -- and too bifurcated to be satisfying.

Full Review | Aug 2, 2013

Onetime Saturday Night Live castmates Wiig and Rudolph make Annie and Lillian's friendship believable. Which is why Annie's shenanigans are sad -- and hilarious.

| Aug 2, 2013

The movie won't change your life or grab a fistful of Oscar nominations come next winter. But it will make you laugh, hard and often, and it proves that sometimes girls just want to have fun.

| Oct 7, 2011

Bridesmaids turns the gross-out comedy genre on its head and emerges bigger and better than its predecessors. It boasts unforgettable breakout performances and is the most important comedy of the year. And the best.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 18, 2011

Is it funny? Yes, at times, and its female-centric theme will appeal to many women. I just hope they have the patience to trudge through the slow spots and story detours. Bridesmaids, which might as easily bear the title Women Behaving Badly

Full Review | Jul 7, 2011

At its best, Bridesmaids does that wonderful thing: tell the truth, indelicately.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2011

Indeed pretty much a rom-com in the end - but hugely enjoyable, fresh and rude, both touching and funny, all the way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2011

Sharply written and winningly performed, it delivers more laughs than any movie released this year, but also, the longer it goes on, develops into a surprisingly poignant evocation of self-scuppering loneliness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 23, 2011

The full horror of being a bridesmaid is shown, but Wiig persuades you there is something genuinely loving and sisterly to be found at the end of this incredible ordeal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2011

Really, bottom line: it's the best thing Apatow's put his name to in years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2011

An effortless blend of bad taste and good humour with a wholly believable, often very touching emotional core, all centred around one of the finest star-making comic performances in recent memory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2011

Finally, a female ensemble comedy that balances realistic characters with smart laughs and side-splitting farce.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2011

Completely and utterly honk-like-a-goose hilarious.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 18, 2011

Bridesmaids is just fall-down funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2011