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

| Mar 12, 2021

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

Here's the quickie review: Good cast, nearly hopeless script.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2019

As the movie of choice after a boozy brunch or as a way to decompress after holiday stress, Second Act-goofy and cliched, but not offensively either-will do fine.

| Feb 7, 2019

Stretches the bounds of contrivance past credibility.

| Jan 29, 2019

Lopez is still a star and no mistake. But not for the first time in her chequered screen career, one wishes she was better served by the material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 25, 2019

School = bad. Guts = good. Ugh.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 25, 2019

For all the film's fumbled shortcuts, air of semi-intentional Nineties-ness, and the completely mad bit with a stray flight of doves, it jollies along with some amiability.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2019

A truly terrible Working Girl knock-off...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 24, 2019

Inoffensive and unremarkable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 3, 2019

Stick with Second Act for its smart reframing of a city Cinderella story that retains its sense of humour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2018

The film feels as finely tailored to J. Lo as the booty-enhancing pencil skirts she wears throughout the movie: Second Act's Maya from Queens is our Jenny from the Block.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2018

So much of the humor and so many of the situations in "Second Act" feel like warmed-over Second Helpings of a dinner from long ago. A dinner that wasn't all that memorable in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2018

Even the boundless charms of Jennifer Lopez cannot overcome a mess of a script in Second Act.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2018

Eating a wad of raw cookie dough is satisfying, but it might also make you sick. That's how "Second Act" is.

| Original Score: C | Dec 21, 2018

In Second Act, Jennifer Lopez is mostly let down by her script. I still think she can be a bankable romcom star, but she needs to find a film that allows her-and her audience-to finally grow up.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2018

A blatantly telegraphed mid-film twist helps turn Second Act into one of the strangest and most misguided rom-coms of any year.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2018

When the contrivances get too much in this 'Working Girl' for millennials, just watch take-charge, live-wire Jenny from the block deliver miles of smiles. Sometimes star power is its own reward.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 20, 2018

The movie is all over the place and there is no attempt to weave it into a coherent whole - which is regrettable as scene for scene it often works.

| Dec 20, 2018

It's a pleasant enough diversion, helped along immensely by Lopez's warm screen presence and by a first-rate Sassy Best Friend performance by Leah Remini.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 20, 2018