Here's Sandra Bullock doing what she has always done - playfully splashing about in the middle of the mainstream. Those who enjoy a little mindless diversion won't mind getting wet once again.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 11, 2020

It's a likeable comedy with many pratfalls, a couple laugh-out-loud moments, and a deep understanding of pageant superficiality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 5, 2018

Pleasant and entertaining; for teens and older.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010

Its story is far from logical, let alone realistic, yet we laugh and completely buy into the fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Bullock's talent for gentle farce is not enough to carry her here; there are only so many times she can get a laugh out of stumbling in her high heels and talking with her mouth full.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

While there may not be many surprises, there's little to dislike either.

| Jun 24, 2006

Sandra Bullock (who also produces) takes a lame idea of a script, splashes her considerable allure all over it, and comes away with an amiable, light-hearted holiday charmer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

Miss Congeniality isn't awful, but it isn't utterly entertaining or incredibly original either, it's just right in the middle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Basically, this is like a really bad film from the eighties, that seems to be remade with Sandra Bullock digitally grafted onto the horrible plot.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Predictably cute and idiotically misleading.

| Original Score: C- | May 4, 2005

Convenient bimbo stereotypes, bolstered and magnified.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 28, 2005

No one does this kind of thing better than Bullock, but one wonders for how long she can pull it off. Perhaps for as long as it pays.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 11, 2005

Sandra Bullock is in a class of her own and it's only partly a matter of beauty. Perhaps the larger part is that shining, irresistible personality that lights a room, a runway, a silver screen. She can get you interested in the phone directory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2004

Caine may save the movie, but Bullock is the movie. The confection rests on her considerable off-center charm and beauty.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2003

With this cutesy bit of ick, Sandra Bullock squanders the good will she engendered with her surprisingly complex portrayal of a party girl in rehab in 28 Days.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 14, 2003

Taking a potshot at the beauty pageant industry, Miss Congeniality is entertainment as light as a well-shaped hairdo, fitted out with skin-deep characterizations and a plot that has the all complexity of a G-string bikini.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The title refers to the Miss America pageant award given to "the person who was nicest to everyone," and this seems perfectly apt for Bullock's winning performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2002

Sandra Bullock gives her regular-gal aura a serious workout in Miss Congeniality as an ugly-duckling FBI agent transformed into a beauty-pageant swan. And, by gum, she pulls it off.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002

Like most beauty pageant contestants themselves, Miss Congeniality is all charm and little substance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 12, 2002