It gets very very silly... But for much younger kids, they may enjoy it.

| Mar 22, 2021

A pretty sweet and cute comedy... Jennifer Garner is famously likable, and she's likable here.

| Mar 22, 2021

What you think it's going to be is exactly what you're going to get.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2021

Parents will be amused with the antics that ensue. The kids will love it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2021

It's rare to see the real world impinging on what is basically a Christian-inflected, highly confected, sub-Disney kind of family flick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2021

There's not too much of a draw for the child-free - other than a sense of relief - but the message of the importance of saying "yes" and "no" will likely resonate with its target audience, especially when presented in generally amiable packaging.

| Mar 12, 2021

An entertaining, family-friendly romp with wish-fulfilling yeses, extended comic mayhem, and satisfying consequences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2021

Dad is chased by vindictive birds, Mom picks a fight at a theme park and the kids come to appreciate that, sometimes, adults are right to say no to things - like this movie.

| Mar 12, 2021

A fun concept gets covered in suds in "Yes Day," a children's fantasy about a day where parents have to say "yes" to everything, which allows kids to make their wildest Nickelodeon-adjacent dreams come true.

| Original Score: C | Mar 12, 2021

"Yes Day" slides too often into contrived, loudly scored montages of "fun" that don't transfer to those of us watching. And while Garner and Ramirez are both very fine actors, neither of them is funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 11, 2021

An inoffensive if unengaging family romp that somehow manages to make the ultimate day of fun feel like a drag.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2021

If you need a charming film headed up by a skilled comic actor about a family going through troubling times then watch Rose Byrne in Instant Family instead because it's a big no for this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2021

Granted, this is a movie based on a kids' book, not a rethinking of "Apocalypse Now." But the promising beginning shows that it could have been something more than dumb. Alas, it's not.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2021

For Arteta, this is a sad pivot from the roiling sexual dysfunction of his recent Duck Butter back to the dismal fluff of the Garner-starring Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

| Original Score: C | Mar 10, 2021

Nope.

| Mar 10, 2021

Ultimately, Yes Day doesn't commit to either being a full-out family fun movie or a family drama.

| Mar 10, 2021

Actually manages to feel like a labor of love from time to time. Whether you're talking about family movies or family itself, that's good enough to get by.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 10, 2021

"Yes Day" strings together a series of just-say-yes set pieces that don't play out the central premise so much as they turn it into an extended kiddie-action-movie burlesque.

| Mar 10, 2021