...the reason the film's intimate and emotional ending works so well (despite a hazy and disorganized plot that didn’t necessarily lay out a plausible road to its climax convincingly) is Hughes’s contentment with his own life.

| Jul 25, 2023

Stubbornly inert. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2022

...I assumed the film's subject matter was too adult for 13-year-old me (and it was), but...I've decided that when it comes to She's Having a Baby, "it's not me, it's you" suffices.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 3, 2022

Hughes's ideas are crystal clear at times, resulting in hilarious scenes that reflect a pained reality about maturity.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 6, 2021

The daft fantasy sequences are a waste of time and get in the way of an otherwise pleasant movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 26, 2021

Hughes has supplied some bright, even brilliant touches in dealing with the traditional cliches.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2019

[Hughes] proves he also can handle life on the other side of graduation.

| Dec 9, 2017

If She's Having a Baby were a funnier movie, if the fights were more cleverly written and Bacon and McGovern played them more deftly and lightly, it wouldn't have that unpleasant edge -- seesawing between romance and paranoia.

| Jun 4, 2014

By turns amusing and exasperating, it takes its time getting to the "Life is what you make it" point, but it's sweet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2014

[The film] assumes that boys will be boys but that the mystical act of fatherhood will make a man of you. Trouble with She's Having a Baby is, Hughes believes this without feeling obliged to develop it dramatically.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2014

Director Hughes' effort to follow his teenagers into adulthood only results in cardboard cut-outs.

| Jun 4, 2014

It's a measure of how little maneuvering room the movie leaves its performers that a lovely, sensitive actress like Elizabeth McGovern makes virtually no impression.

| Jun 4, 2014

She's Having a Baby wants to be everyone's story, but its hollowness makes it no one's.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2014

McGovern manages to fare better with the cliches thrown at her than Bacon does; but neither has a prayer of scoring at a game whose rules and players might have been dreamed up by a computer.

| Jun 4, 2014

Bacon`s character is such a chronic complainer than we wonder why McGovern doesn't dump him.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 4, 2014

As for Bacon and McGovern, it`s sad to see these usually energetic performers labor through a tired script, rarely getting a chance to deliver.

| Jun 4, 2014

Hughes instead falls back on the easy jokes, hip music, and superficial character studies that have obscured the basic viability of all his work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2014

Hughes is simply doing what they tell you the first day of creative writing class: write about what you know. And he's doing it with both craft and a good deal of emotional honesty.

| Jun 4, 2014

Like the couple he chronicles, Hughes seems to be profiting from the maturation process.

| Jun 4, 2014

Director John Hughes tries his best to give everything a sparky, pacey feel, but the end result is simply just not funny enough.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2014