What unfolds is Mission: Impossible on Mobility Scooters, with a soundtrack to match. Thelma and Ben after the crooks; Danny and his parents chasing Thelma and Ben. It is full of humour, and not a little sadness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 25, 2024

The key to all this is Squibb’s success in convincing you of the close contact Thelma maintains with her younger self. You can see the girl in her.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2024

A playful, light-hearted film at is core, in every single frame Margolin foregrounds Thelma’s subjectivity and experience, brought to life so vividly by Squibb

| Aug 26, 2024

As a comedy, the film is a little light on laughs, but Squibb and her co-star, the late Richard Roundtree, bring considerable charm to what might otherwise be a by-numbers affair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2024

The tone from the debut feature writer and director Josh Margolin is exquisitely well-judged, offsetting deeply felt melancholy with wry humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

On paper, Thelma might seem like a typical feel-good “gray dollar” fodder, however, the film stands out with a consistently funny script, genuine emotional depth, and outstanding comic performances from its principle actors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

The impulse may be to applaud her for that fact alone. A mistake, I’d say. One, she is good enough not to need the condescension. Two, after seeing her in action here, you wouldn’t want to make her angry...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2024

We’re repeatedly invited to coo at the adorable old-timer, and the film mistakes that condescension for empathy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2024

On paper, Thelma may sound unbearably twee, the kind of film that relies heavily on old people saying the darnedest things to win laughs. But the film is buoyed by a consistently funny script, real pathos and stellar comic performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2024

For me there is a spoonful of sugar too many in this film... Squibb is however really good: no other casting is conceivable, and it is good to see her get the lead turn she deserves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2024

June Squibb is a total delight.

| Jul 13, 2024

Viewers will love the main and supporting characters that inhabit Thelma’s world and the ones she meets along the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2024

Thelma is neither as funny nor as Marmite-y as Little Miss Sunshine, a kindred spirit in the quirky indie realm, but its light shines in myriad little character beats.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2024

At 94, screen veteran June Squibb gets her first leading role and carries the movie with style.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2024

This action-comedy leaves room for plenty of nuance about aging and autonomy.

| Jun 25, 2024

“Thelma” is a young filmmaker’s touching and funny tribute to the olds.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 24, 2024

If it weren’t for casting a bona fide nonagenarian in the title role, Thelma might not work at all. But it doesn’t pander to its audience and treats its characters with dignity and a dash of comic exaggeration.

| Jun 22, 2024

Margolin captures the unlikely beauty of the Valley, and injects thrilling suspense into this yarn

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2024

Too often, it’s an indie comedy that confuses cutesy for charming.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 21, 2024

On top of the delightful performances by its entire cast and those winking action sequences, Thelma is genuinely one of the funniest films I’ve seen in a while.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 21, 2024