Sometimes the tone is a little too cute but Showalter and his writers have a persuasive ability to defuse the looming threat of sentimentality with comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Spoiler Alert is a delightfully effective melodrama, one that pulls few punches and isn’t afraid of wearing a plethora of emotions out in the open for all to see.

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

This is a nice film. A sweet film. A film you can watch with your mother-in-law.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2022

... While it eventually finds its sweet core, its surrounded by the shards of a much more interesting story.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 9, 2022

A tender, inspiring story.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 9, 2022

Parsons and Aldridge have fantastic chemistry together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2022

As you’d expect, Sally Field and Bill Irwin are great together as Kit’s parents, who are so loving and accepting, you wonder why Kit waited so long to come out to them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2022

Spoiler Alert is at its best when it's not afraid to be mawkish, sentimental, soppy, honest, and downright charming.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2022

A beautifully balanced and well-paced film that knows when to be brutally honest and when to give viewers a moment of reprieve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2022

When the film lets its guard down—namely, whenever Aldridge gets to deploy his charm as Kit or manages to let Field echo a weathered kind of Steel Magnolias screen presence—the film sings.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 8, 2022

Unlike so many “illness movies” — I’m looking at you, Nicholas Sparks — Kit’s life is not mined for the lessons it teaches us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2022

Reaches for humor without jokes... once in a while a few films achieve that, and this is one of them.

| Dec 6, 2022

At times “Spoiler Alert” feels like an edgy, clever film that plays wittily on the main character’s lifelong obsession with 온라인카지노추천. At others, it feels like a more formulaic, holiday-themed tearjerker.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2022

The film is a testament to the beautiful greys in love that may sting in the moment, but when a bigger picture is forced upon us, are appreciated for the balance they provide.

| Dec 6, 2022

This is probably best to skip if you have history of helping a loved one through cancer, but for everyone else it’s a solid weekend watch once it hits streaming.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 5, 2022

Showalter ultimately succeeds because he never loses focus of the heart at the core of his story.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 2, 2022

Spoiler alert: we deserve better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2022

We know from the beginning where the witty and warm Spoiler Alert is headed, but not how moving that journey will be.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2022

A bigger problem is that the so-called sincere dialogue is either blunter than a soap opera (“It’s his mother. He told her not to come. I’ve never even met the woman.”) or hammier than a Hawaiian pizza (“Hey honey, I’m cancer! I mean, I’m home!”)

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 1, 2022

Despite the narrative elements that are part of Michael’s coping mechanisms, Aldridge and Field effectively salvage the emotional core of “Spoiler Alert,” bringing us back to the heart of the matter.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 1, 2022