It's not Coppola's usual territory, and he overplays the Capra card a little, but he has fashioned a thoughtful, rewarding tale - even if he doesn't use a DeLorean car to get there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2025

Peggy Sue Got Married is a thoughtful and warm comedy that will only get better as you age.

| Jan 11, 2025

A Back to the Future for adults, this excellent film marks an acting threshold for Turner and a return to form for Coppola.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 27, 2024

What if Jesus had thwarted crucifixion? What if Peggy Sue could go back in time and not marry her adulterous husband? The same predicament, really.

| Dec 27, 2022

What lingers are the quieter, actorly moments...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 19, 2022

In arguably the most humanistic work of his career, Coppola forgoes the epic in favor of the personal.

| Apr 23, 2021

...an affable yet somewhat forgettable endeavor predominantly dominated by cookie-cutter elements...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 24, 2020

Even if it falls apart a bit at the end, it is basically a well-crafted and entertaining film. But I cannot help but be distressed by the fact that... the female time-traveler is passive in and little enriched by her re-exploration of the past.

| Aug 23, 2019

No masterpiece, but it at least imparts an important perspective about nostalgia.

| Jul 30, 2013

The film often soars into the imaginary heavens of delight but then just as quickly sputters and crash lands due to Coppola's leaden helming.

| Sep 28, 2012

This prom-night balloon of a movie floats easily above the year's other exercises in '50s nostalgia. If you dare reach for it, it will land smartly in your heart.

| Dec 14, 2008

A charming little comedy grounded in an irresistable performance from Kathleen Turner.

| Dec 14, 2008

It's grave, lumbering, arrhythmic, and bloated, an emotional hogwallow of catchpenny insights and easy sentimentality.

| Dec 11, 2007

The movie has many lovely moments and just as many dead spots, but its strengths make this atypical film from Francis Coppola a worthwhile viewing experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 11, 2007

What makes this treatment unique is that the jokes aren't so much derivative of pop culture, but are instead found in the learned wisdom of a middle-aged woman reacting to her own teenage dilemmas.

| Dec 11, 2007

Centering on a female protag (well-played by Kathleen Turner) and dealing with a similar universal fantasy of revisiting your past, Coppola's small-town fable is a wonderful companion piece to Back to the Future, which was released a year earlier.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2007

Coppola displays a rare light and comedic touch in this charmer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2006

Ignore the ridiculous happy ending of this film, and you have a much more fatalistic exercise in which Coppola eschews easy laughs in favour of the exposure of feeling and the fact that these people's lives, however empty, matter to them.

| Feb 9, 2006

Nicolas Cage lets the comedy rip. "You mean my wang?"

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2005

One of the best romantic comedies of the 80's...."Back to the Future" meets "Somewhere in Time"

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2005