An unapologetically star vehicle which satirizes the indignities inflicted on middle-aged women with a punchy script and three terrific lead performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2022

Nowadays people actually read about the box-office gross of films as if it means something personal to them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2022

Hawn, Midler and Keaton form an impressive selection of seasoned actresses that make this otherwise so-so script... hilarious.

| May 16, 2022

...generally feels like it could (and should) be so much better...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 16, 2021

First Wives Club is something Hollywood hasn't produced since 9 to 5 some 16 years ago: a film exhilaratingly woman-positive and funny.

| Feb 26, 2020

For better or worse - more better than worse, though -The First Wives Club is peak 1990s feminist cinema.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2020

In the end, "The First Wives Club" even betrays its own bylaws. Revenge is a dish not served. Did Thelma and Louise make their sacrifice for nothing?

| Jan 9, 2019

Smart and sassy, "The First Wives Club" is funny enough to amuse even the second wives.

| Jan 9, 2019

Oh, the stories Hawn, Midler and Keaton could tell about men. But we never get to hear them in "The First Wives Clubs." Instead, it's high jinks as they plot revenge, get the money.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 9, 2019

The dialogue is often silly but Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn deliver it with enough crackerjack energy to keep audiences laughing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2019

Ultimately First Wives Club fails as a piece of feminist film-making just as miserably as it does as Hollywood entertainment.

| Jan 9, 2019

Those in seach of a classic adult comedy -- a latter-day version of "The Women" -- are urged to join the "Club."

| Jan 9, 2019

It's not much more than a variation on Nine to Five, with the object of revenge switched from a single boss to multiple husbands.

| Jan 9, 2019

[I]f you're expecting any savour of fin de siecle feminism more bracing than that peddled in, say, Nine to Five (which has much the same fundamental revenge premise), you'd be better off perusing the writings of Gloria Steinem.

| Jan 9, 2019

Starting over the top and wildly working its way upwards, The First Wives' Club eschews subtlety at all costs and is dogged by a number of out of place syrupy songs on the soundtrack.

| Jan 9, 2019

But despite the clever jabs, and even with cameo support from Ivana Trump and Gloria Steinern, the film's three stars still seem trapped by Hollywood formula-choked by the heavy-handed direction of Hugh Wilson, and a smarmy script by Robert Harling,

| Jan 9, 2019

Although the movie presents itself as a ''hear me roar'' feminist statement, its view of humanity - both male and female - is so sour and artificial that the women characters come off almost as badly as the men do.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 9, 2019

The awful thing about this movie is that its stars, three of the best comic actresses in Hollywood, are reduced to bimbos too.

| Jan 9, 2019

Terrific stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2019

While the movie frequently gets things right, the big intricate revenge set-up in the second half is mishandled and muddled.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 9, 2019