A glossy, ham-fisted, non-romance.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2021

The two stars may be great pals in life, but there's little magic in their on-screen partnership.

| Mar 6, 2018

Drama about untraditional parenting has sex, mature themes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2016

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

The very first scene in the new Madonna movie The Next Best Thing stumbles and the movie never recovers.

| May 26, 2006

This astonishingly bad tearjerker, a Fannie Hurst weepie with a gay twist, is as phony as a three-dollar bill and just about as entertaining.

| Original Score: F | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 20, 2003

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

| Original Score: C | Jan 10, 2003

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Well-intentioned but heavy-handed.

| Sep 9, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 27, 2001

The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Dry dialogue, too many contrived situations and a frightfully wooden performance by Madonna.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's sort of like two baseball teams going out to the parking lot to play the ninth inning of a tied ballgame, then coming back onto the field to announce the score.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Madonna has little charisma as a movie performer.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000