“Easter Sunday” is at its best as a visual love letter to California and Filipino culture, but instead of sticking to showing and not telling, Koy is given the responsibility of being the docent to his teenage son about all the cool things.

| Jun 9, 2024

The movie has a great sense of family culture & some good cameos that do actually bring the laughs but in the end of the day it feels like a sitcom made for a movie & takes you out of the entire experience

| Jul 25, 2023

Instead of the charming, well-meaning mess of a family in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Easter Sunday is focused on an irredeemably dysfunctional family. It’s no wonder Jo wanted to skip this dinner.

| Jul 24, 2023

Did this story live up to the quality we should have expected for the first ever major Filipino-centric Hollywood film? The answer is an emphatic no.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 21, 2023

While Jo Koy remains a phenomenal comedian, this movie is far from his best work, and you’ll get many more laughs by watching one of his Netflix stand-up specials.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 30, 2022

If the movie had been infused with Koy’s humor and wit, it would have been a much better film than what was ultimately produced.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2022

Despite showing that Jo Koy is more than deserving of leading man status, and offering some solid laughs, Easter Sunday never reaches its full potential.

| Original Score: C | Oct 22, 2022

Everything in Easter Sunday is played for laughs… crazy family, wacky mob thriller, and lots of cameos. It’s all good, light fun.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 29, 2022

It operates as a symbol of representation rather than a well-developed, cohesive story.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 26, 2022

The film works best when Koy and his on-screen family are together, but a distracting plot thread inexplicably and frequently separates them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2022

It feels like half the movie’s dialogue was copied and pasted.

| Aug 17, 2022

Jo Koy’s vibrant spirit leaves a lasting impression.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2022

Easter Sunday was supposed to capitalize on the humor that goes along with being part of a large immigrant family, but in the end the movie is a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 12, 2022

There are bits of humor that work here, and the heart is in the right place, but for the most part, this is one of those comedies that doesn’t supply much of what one is looking for, meaning it just kind of sits there.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 12, 2022

Ultimately satisfying and heart-warming.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2022

When all else fails – and literally everything but one line fails – Jo Koy resorts to just solving problems with stand-up comedy and cutaways to laughter that are the equivalent of an applause sign until it compounds into a near murder-kidnapping.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 11, 2022

Easter Sunday reflects on the realities of generational assimilation, but it never loses sight of the inherent humor that only family can expose.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 10, 2022

I honestly don't know what the point of Easter Sunday was supposed to be. Then again, the filmmakers don't seem to have been entirely sure about that, either.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 9, 2022

Koy and company bring some charisma to the table before the film eventually suffocates under its standard-issue design.

| Aug 8, 2022

Easter Sunday has a myriad of problems, none of them having to do with the lead, but everything to do with what passes as “good comedy” today.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2022