I feel like there’s a well-meaning intention behind Second Act. But there’s next to no originality or spontaneity to be found on screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Filled with endless zingers that hit the ground like a bowling ball from a 10th-floor window, Second Act is tedious from the start. There is nothing worse than low-brow pretending to be high-class.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 17, 2022

a ripe slice of cheese, with silly pratfalls for a game star

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2022

You're going to love [the cast].

| Oct 2, 2021

It goes with a twist that's as sentimental as it is improbable.

| Mar 12, 2021

Sees Lopez doing her best with a script that requires little more from her than sitting on the subway looking introspective. This story of second chances won't hold up to a second viewing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2021

What the film also accomplishes is both solidifying Lopez's timeless charm and revealing her aging audience.

| Jan 29, 2021

All of this solid comedy material, however, is sidelined when the story decides it needs to minimise the laughs and get the melodrama moving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2020

[After 45 minutes, Second Act] panders like crazy to its audience, which is especially rich given the many lines about how 'consumers are getting smarter and smarter' nowadays.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2020

In a true Christmas miracle, everything about Second Act, the new Jennifer Lopez film, manages to scream that it's both trying too hard and not trying hard enough.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2020

Look at the poster for Second Act. You know if you're going to see this, and if you are, you'll probably dig it for the most part. Even by that standard, this is lower tier material.

| Mar 18, 2020

A movie about family that's masquerading as a romantic comedy that might be a bit too saccharine.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 10, 2020

...perpetually affable (if awfully conventional)...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2019

I loved the first half of this and thought that the second half got completely insane in a way I did not appreciate.

| Sep 13, 2019

As J.Lo's latest movie love-interest so rightly observes, "It ain't over until it's over" - and it certainly ain't over for supermarket assistant manager Maya.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 7, 2019

It's a familiar story, but one that's delivered with style, with Lopez and Hudgens standing out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2019

There's something fun and sweet and innocent about it that you can't help but enjoy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2019

Fans of Lopez and this type of makeover comedy are sure to respond positively to Peter Segal's amusing, if cautious film.

| May 2, 2019

Since the film's characters talk endlessly about being honest, it might be nice if the film had a little more honesty itself.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 18, 2019

For a movie that imagines itself as a smart seriocomedy, Second Act can be awfully dumb.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2019