“I Feel Pretty” centers the ordinary woman, gives her the delusion, adds a dash of The Devil Wears Prada, and depicts her personal aesthetic in the vein of Reese Witherspoon in “Legally Blonde.” The premise feels familiar but is subversive.

| Jun 12, 2024

“I Feel Pretty” is a movie with a message – a genuinely good message. And we are constantly getting whiffs of it throughout. Unfortunately it’s buried in a tonally challenged film with an glaring identity crisis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It's hard to imagine a more confused or flawed execution of a well-meaning message, except maybe Shallow Hal (2001).

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 14, 2022

When Renee goes off the rails, so does the movie.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 21, 2021

The "embrace yourself" message is ultimately a good one. Too bad the film has such a strange way of expressing it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Schumer isn't perfect, and she'd probably be among the first to say so. But she can do better than the cutest sorta-comedy of 1988.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 5, 2021

I Feel Pretty has such a positive message at its core but was ultimately let down by its execution and left us feeling like we'd seen a What Women Want for 21st century quasi-feminists, and it bummed me out.

| Jan 26, 2021

Really resonates for people, like myself, that have gone through struggles of acceptance and body confidence.

| Nov 4, 2020

I Feel Pretty is a pretty darn good film, but you can just tell that everyone involved expected it to be a pretty darn great one.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

Doesn't quite knock the promising premise out of the park, leading to a serviceable often funny comedy which struggles to establish just what it wants to be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2020

Like any high-concept comedy, there are always minor things to nitpick. Such logic holes might turn off some more serious-minded critics, but if the goal of a comedy is to make us laugh, this one hits the mark.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2020

A film in which being attractive means being arrogant and out of touch, set in a world that's apparently populated solely by those people.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2020

It is, at the end of the day, a body positivity film telling you that you need makeup to feel confident.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

It's disappointing that the film often uses its own message as fodder for a cheap gag.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 18, 2020

The dominating issue with I Feel Pretty is that it isn't especially funny, which seems doubly disappointing because the messages and themes of the film are there just looking for a way to be fully realized and forcefully delivered.

| Jun 10, 2020

It's hard to take I Feel Pretty's message seriously even when the film is at its most sincere.

| Mar 30, 2020

I didn't leave the theater thinking "I Feel Pretty." I left feeling awkward.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 29, 2020

Here, though the movie is easily interpreted as a commentary on "real women" loving their bodies, the "Pretty" team offers a palatable lesson on acceptance, the truest gift.

| Nov 6, 2019

Schumer shows that every woman has insecurities about how they look, but wants to empower women to shake their fear of flaws. You may not think this is the best movie, but it may make you laugh and feel better about your bad self.

| Aug 8, 2019

Of course, Renee learns her lesson by the end, but the film's muddled messages do little to similarly educate viewers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2019