Jillian Bell and Isla Fisher shine in a fairytale of a very different kind.

| Dec 10, 2020

Sharon Maguire's holiday heartwarmer subverts conventions, adding a dash of feminism and a sprinkling of strong supporting performances from Jane Curtin and June Squibb.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2020

A great display of Jillian Bell's imagination as an actor, and her dedication to a joke.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2020

The film recalls the studio's once-upon-a-time hit, "Enchanted," although here, the conceit loses much of its charm.

| Dec 4, 2020

Do we need another movie about a naïve being from a fantastical realm who, for one reason or another, lands on Earth to teach us lessons? Nope.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2020

Where Godmothered should coast, it stumbles - swerving between unwieldy earnestness to something edgier and settling on something duller than it should be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2020

The movie does serve up a rather satisfying ending, suggesting the studio's latest politically correct reinterpretation of "true love." The rest looks cheap and lacks much of a personality...

| Dec 2, 2020

[Y]ou can almost believe in the power of wishes coming true, before "Godmothered" yanks that all way, revealing the hollowness at the center of, well, believing.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 2, 2020

[I]ts leading performers might make you, or your kids, believe in magic for a minute or 90. Now, someone please cast Bell and Fisher in their own Jump Street spinoff, dammit. I mean, darn it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 2, 2020

What elevates Godmothered is an ending that manages to tie up the film's familiar themes in a surprisingly moving way.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 2, 2020

[Features] an ending that's so emotionally and intellectually satisfying that it's easy to forgive the film's less magical attributes.

| Dec 2, 2020