The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is never a bad film. It's simply an unnecessary one.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 22, 2020

Dev Patel is very annoying.

| May 27, 2020

It is smart, funny, and tremendously beautiful to look at.

| Apr 9, 2020

You don't need to see it in theaters. Wait until it's on Netflix and you can fall asleep.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 26, 2020

Charming, poignant and touched with romance and whimsy...Once you check in, you'll never want to check out!

| Dec 8, 2019

The British actors hold things together, adding charm, sparkle and mischief to a script that pales in comparison to the original. The title seems to prepare you for that anyway.

| Aug 15, 2019

Catch up with characters you wished you could spend more time with in the first visit. Encouragingly, they are all still alive and are joined by some equally endearing newbies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2019

It's especially lovely to have a movie with so many older relationships and actors elevating material above the script.

| Original Score: B | Apr 30, 2019

The audience is dragged into a world even more technicolored than before; one brimming with light and music, designed to evoke the eternal charm of India more prominently than ever.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2019

Sequels often shoot themselves in the foot when they retread ground already covered by their predecessors; heightened whimsy, airiness and positivity are what distinguish Second Best from The Best.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 14, 2019

The cast is reliable and do what they can with the material, but the biggest problem is that these characters should be way smarter than they are written -- most of the conflicts are way too simple.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 24, 2019

The film's blithe attitude to its Indian characters and canvas, plus the largely bogus journeys it forces on its key personnel, give new meaning to the word 'shallow'.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 3, 2018

They wiggle their formulaic rumps in the direction of paying audience's tear ducts until water inevitably and uncontrollably gushes.

| Aug 31, 2018

All the great beats are here, and the addition of a wedding seems generic but it is FUN. In closing, if you don't like this film, you've given in to winter's dark embrace. Buck up!

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2018

What an awful last film for most of its audience to see, a grim, tinkling, multicoloured Typhoid Mary of cinema.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2018

Maggie Smith is as British as ever - and she has the best lines for dressing down the Americans... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 22, 2018

Really, knowing that sequels rarely, if ever, live up to the original, why would a production studio risk calling a movie "The Second Best" anything? Still, there are several good reasons to see it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2017

You have to credit all concerned for granting this second -- and better -- Marigold Hotel an appropriately rueful conclusion that tempers the jollity of the Bollywood-style wedding that has come just before.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2017

Just like the picturesque little Jaipur hotel at the centre of the story, this second best instalment is still very much worth a visit.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 9, 2017

As haphazardly and indifferently plotted as it is, you can't go entirely wrong with a movie that lets you watch Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, and Celia Imrie for two hours, joined by Richard Gere, David Strathairn and Tamsin Greig.

| Oct 17, 2017