An innocent comic exercise, fueled more on charm than titillation.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2004

Amiable enough as a frothy entertainment, with darker overtones rendered with emotional effectiveness.

| Jan 8, 2004

Although Calendar Girls is resolutely pleasant, the movie never really goes much beyond that.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2004

Calendar Girls will make your day.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 2, 2004

Tries to be both funny and touching and and isn't enough of either.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 2, 2004

Breezes along for a good stretch in easy delight at age-defying liberation.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 2, 2004

A refreshing lark, made all the more enjoyable by a cast of fine actors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 2, 2004

A lovely romp.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 2, 2004

Conventional, preachy and, worst of all, predictable.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 2, 2004

Cozy and enjoyable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 2, 2004

... good-natured confection, filled with breezy humor and heartfelt relationships ...

Full Review | Dec 22, 2003

Unlike the flowers and the women of Yorkshire, Calendar Girls hits its stride early on, and goes to seed well before we can enjoy its full bloom.

| Dec 20, 2003

The never-naughty Calendar Girls is as easy to take as it is because director Nigel Cole avoids the hard sell.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 19, 2003

There's a terrific comedy buried somewhere here about moral hypocrisy and community panic, but it never fully emerges.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2003

A heartwarmer of a story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2003

A charming movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2003

Calendar Girls may be boomer-baiting formula, but this ingratiating, big-hearted holiday treat is as British as plum pudding -- and the closest thing on the market to the famous Ealing comedies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2003

Calendar Girls will leave you with that exuberant smile you wore after The Full Monty.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2003

[Mirren and Walters] have the moxie and art to make you forget -- at least for stretches -- the very wobbly contrivance of the story around them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 19, 2003

[A] sweet, good-humored comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2003