Anchored by bright, bubbly performances from [Kuhoo] Verma and [Victoria] Moroles, Plan B has lower stakes... — Sunny doesn’t know that she’s pregnant and has a loving, if demanding, home life — and so can afford to turn the girls’ ordeal into a fun romp.

| Jul 29, 2024

The two leads are utterly charming and play off one another beautifully, with an appropriately hyperactive style, while the final act strikes just the right emotional notes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2024

Plan B offers the counterpoint that this genre of film can live on, but that it maybe just needs some new perspectives through which these stories are being told.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2022

Plan B works because it is able to organize a fun genre romp around a narrative structure that directly reflects the consequences of how we treat reproductive rights in this country. It’s a delicate balance, but one that works.

| Jun 24, 2022

Plan B shows us that the war over women's reproductive rights doesn't have a single, sweeping battlefield. It's a cold war in which one group gradually takes away women's agency and limits the decisions they can make about their bodies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

The "Pair of teen girls go on a road trip to obtain an abortion or birth control" is now a subgenre unto itself, so we must rely on the wit of the screenplay and the charm of the leads to get us by. Luckily, both are great here.

| Sep 17, 2021

With honest, empathetic storytelling and endearing performances from a talented young cast, Plan B is a raucous coming-of-age road trip adventure that has tremendous energy and a massive heart.

| Aug 21, 2021

An authentic representation of being a young woman in this society. It advocates for female reproductive rights in a contemporary manner. It's funny, moving, and highlights various themes like friendship, self-acceptance, and familial relationship.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 24, 2021

The characters are complex, the story engaging, and the trip is like the road trip from hell sans stalky serial killer.

| Jul 2, 2021

While Sunny and Lupe may have their typical teen girl insecurities, they're for the most part cheerful relatable characters who use modern buzz words they don't totally understand to try and make sense of a world to which they're still trying to adapt.

| Jun 26, 2021

A fun and provocative film at times, always frank and honest. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 22, 2021

Fans of Booksmart, Blockers, and Unpregnant will find much to like here. But while the movie touches each of those films in some way, it also crafts a voice and narrative of its own.

| Jun 18, 2021

Director Natalie Morales shapes Plan B's subtle politics into a badge of pride in a film that is funny, smart, and willing to get comfortably uncomfortable with its complicated subjects.

| Jun 17, 2021

Like 'Booksmart' it's front and center to teenage girls; good, largely funny and pacey with lots of heart. There's five good jokes in the credit sequence alone.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2021

Along the way, a friendship is tested; secrets are revealed; and - in a sweet touch, unusual for the genre - relationships with parents are strained but emerge strong. Stronger even than the Indian Mafia.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 8, 2021

While its tone is radically different from that of 'Never Rarely,' Plan B has political points to make, without ever feeling like a smug lecture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2021

Plan B is a bit of an odd duck, in that it has such clear intent to buck the lighthearted conventions of the genre ... yet adheres to so many of those same conventions throughout.

| Jun 6, 2021

[I]ntroduces real-world concerns into its comedy without ever losing sight of the reason we're here - to laugh...With some great gags and a dynamic duo at its center, Plan B should be your Plan A.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2021

A funny and likable girl buddy comedy.

| Original Score: B | Jun 4, 2021

It was funny with great performances, smart writing, and whip-smart direction by Natalie Morales.

| Jun 3, 2021