Jo Koy’s vibrant spirit leaves a lasting impression.

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

This is pretty funny -- starts slow but finishes strong.

| Aug 5, 2022

It’s clear that Jo Koy loves his relatives, and wants the world to know it. It’s just that his style would be better served within the more earnest confines of a traditional multi-cam sitcom.

| Aug 5, 2022

One can’t help leaving with a smile. Food, family, a big karaoke scene… and a spotlight on an immigrant community underrepresented in Hollywood. There are worse ways to spend 96 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2022

Koy nails the stand-up bits, taking over for the priest on Easter Sunday and delivering an amusing impromptu sermon. But, as a character, he’s about as believable as Easter in August.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2022

Representation aside, "Easter Sunday" never rises past standard sitcom-level clichés and plotting. Its heart may be in the right place, but its execution is as wayward as releasing an Easter film in August.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 5, 2022

The movie, sloppily directed by Super Trooper’s Chandrashekar, recycles gags from Koy’s excellent stand-up that revolve around his overbearing mother (Lydia Gaston) and eccentric extended family.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2022

The film features mostly Filipino actors, with wonderful, culturally specific jokes and a cast of characters that fit into stereotypical, but no less true, immigrant archetypes.

| Aug 5, 2022

The entire cast is excellent, including a surprise Filipino guest star. It's a pleasure to see their jubilance in bringing their culture to screen, which shines even in the script’s weakest moments.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2022

It’s disappointing that the film takes that well-worn trope of a big family get-together and just lazily adds a Filipino layer to it.

| Aug 5, 2022

The film’s general laziness is its most disappointing element. Every performer conveys sincere enthusiasm to be on screen with other Filipino actors, but their joy is squandered by a cartoonish story that squanders its honest core.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 4, 2022

There were a few good things about this, not least a great supporting cast... a few surprise cameos that really work, one of them providing the funniest scenes in the movie.

| Aug 4, 2022

It’s absolutely worth celebrating that the comedian wanted to make a family friendly comedy that teased but also honored Filipino American life. It should have been possible to make it funnier and keen.

| Aug 4, 2022

It falls hopelessly flat in its comedic aspirations, more closely resembling the sort of bland network sitcom to which its main character aspires.

| Aug 4, 2022

Somewhere along the way, Koy’s dynamic way with a funny story and insights into Filipino identity got lost in the demands of a movie.

| Aug 4, 2022

'Easter Sunday', for all its faults, is still nominally watchable, but it’s a wasteland of unfocused potential.

| Original Score: D | Aug 4, 2022

Even if you don’t get all the ethnic jokes, there’s plenty of family drama that anybody will recognize, no matter their background.

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

The folks on the screen are the whole show, and this genial showcase for standup comic Jo Koy has the advantage of showing off a wealth of Asian/Pacific American talent, pretty badly undervalued by establishment Hollywood.

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