In 2019, Charlie's Angels is less about impossibly perfect women saving the world and more about women joining forces to save the world. It's the direct opposite of the lens used by the men of the film...

| Jul 21, 2020

But this is a rare multiplex movie that rewards patience, with the action and the goofiness ramping up in the second hour.

| Jan 21, 2020

I's hard to feel too grumpy when everyone involved looks like they're having so much fun... But Elizabeth Banks demonstrates a shaky grasp of pacing, which frequently makes [it] feel draggier than it should.

| Dec 6, 2019

[Charlie's Angels] tries earnestly to bring these ladies into the 21st century. And it might have worked, if the film didn't so consistently pull its punches.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2019

I really, really enjoyed it.

| Dec 4, 2019

But while this girl-power action flick happily bashes you over the head with its feminist credentials, elsewhere it keeps missing the mark.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2019

Even pulpy chicksploitation franchises can evolve to reflect the zeitgeist, it seems.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2019

If it's a crime to enjoy Stewart, in a fluorescent pink jockey ensemble, hopping on a horse to chase some chauvinist dinosaurs down, cuff me this second.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2019

From the very first, this Charlie's Angels is all about action and pointless international location work, without the necessary lightness and the solvent of fun.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 28, 2019

Rarely can a movie have left the editing room with so many scenes simply petering out, as if the punchlines had been left on the back seat of an Uber.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2019

The film nobody asked for turns out to be the film nobody deserves.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 27, 2019

A passable, if a little predictable, addition to a tired old franchise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Girl-power franchise Charlie's Angels gets a fun but slightly forgettable update.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2019

Rather than having a story, the film has a string of rote action sequences, and each of these sequences goes the same way.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 23, 2019

Banks gets the soundtrack right, and the costumes and hairstyles are impressive. But the action set-pieces are not, and the story itself is a weak spy thriller with a collection of caricatured men...

| Nov 22, 2019

Charlie's Angels should have been glamorous fun, a Saturday-night-out kind of movie. Suddenly, staying in with an icepack on your head never looked so good.

| Nov 22, 2019

More discouraging than the fact that it got remade is the fact that the story's moral hasn't changed one bit since Diaz, Barrymore, and Liu were the ones telling it. At least that movie had a catchy song by Destiny's Child.

| Nov 22, 2019

Overall, it hits all the right buttons for its genre and for the Charlie's Angels canon in general while still standing on its own and playing to the strengths of its three stars.

| Nov 21, 2019

Miss Stewart is just wonderful... She's just fantastic.

| Nov 19, 2019

The film emerges as a perfectly agreeable action movie, one that's both true to the concept of Charlie's Angels, and probably unrecognizable to anyone time-traveling from the 1970s. That's okay, though. Some concepts have to evolve to survive.

| Nov 18, 2019