You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah is a love letter to Jewish tradition and the coming-of-age story.

| Mar 18, 2025

Cohen’s vision is lush and colorful, creating truly dream-worthy parties with more than one homage to 27 Dresses.

| Feb 13, 2024

It's a little too Mean Girls and leaves out the book's best character (justice for Arthur), but the Sandler clan have great chemistry and Cohen knows how to direct a breezy, fun YA comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2023

The result is a family whose easy familiarity is instantly endearing, which makes up for the lack of real innovation elsewhere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2023

What sounds like an excruciating work of nepotism emerges as something far better: a frothy and lightweight comedy that ends up having something of a genuine heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2023

If you want SNL wild card Sarah Sherman sashaying and improvising as Rabbi Rebecca (you do), you'll need to accept Netflix's YA house style, which demands endless drone shots and music supervision that feels indebted to DJ Schmuley.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2023

[A] frenetic Sandler family misfire...enervating rather than exhilarating, and far from entertaining.

| Original Score: D | Sep 9, 2023

Destined to be one of 2023's most rewarding family films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 8, 2023

It’s a little rough around the edges, a tad rusty in the humour department -- but director Sammi Cohen manages a charming, good-natured set-up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2023

An orgy of conspicuous consumption that's so distasteful.

| Sep 7, 2023

Sunny Sandler gives a wonderfully charming lead performance in this sweet and relatable coming of age story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2023

I'm absolutely floored by the Tomatometer on this! Over 90% fresh? Are you kidding me? You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah is one of the least funny movies I've ever watched. This has a better score than Austin Powers, Dumb & Dumber & Zoolander. Sad.

| Sep 6, 2023

The ending, though tremendously conventional, is still a celebration of Jewish culture, and why not, also a celebration of the Sandler family. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 5, 2023

I love a good coming of age movie. [This] is so not one of them.

| Sep 5, 2023

A charming & often very funny film that's not just another celebrity family gathering but one that shows respect to modern adolescence & the culture and allows favorable comparison to Kelly Fremon Craig's Edge of 17 and Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2023

A nice choice for family movie night.

| Sep 1, 2023

The movie’s heart is in the right place, and while that doesn’t solve all of Bat Mitzvah’s problems, it does make it easier to see past them and simply admire the power of friendship.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2023

Sweet-natured and thoughtful.

| Aug 31, 2023

This has a lot of Judy Bloom in its DNA, in terms of dealing honestly with what young women go through.

| Aug 31, 2023

Hats off to the writers, Alison Peck and Fiona Rosenbloom (on whose book the movie is based), for writing funny, often surprisingly touching, dialogue and creating a heroine and her friends who seem like real tween girls.

| Aug 31, 2023