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Second Act

2018

Peter Segal

Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Freddie Stroma ...

4.5

1,709

Comedy. Drama. Romance A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It’s got a little of everything: executive comedy, maternal anxiety, love story, female buddy movie (...) But it’s Lopez who gives 'Second Act' a note of righteous class comedy.	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"No one scene flows smoothly (...) Almost every dramatic crisis is resolved via a pop music-scored montage (...) There are any Dadaist cinephiles out there, perhaps they can reclaim 'Second Act' as a multilayered masterpiece of illogic.	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The movie and Lopez regain their comic footing once they learn to let this workplace comedy settle into its enjoyable escapist groove. And when the noise and contrivances get too much, just watch J-Lo (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Wesley Morris The New York Times	"I never see plot twists coming, but this one made me feel like Nostradamus (...) A movie like this plays to none of Lopez’s strengths"	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"Assuming moviegoers come with modest expectations, 'Second Act' possesses enough smarts -- book, street or otherwise -- to surround its appealing lead with a veritable buffet of narrative options"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"And that’s pretty much the message of the movie: Dance like nobody’s watching; dream like you can do anything; go see this movie like you don’t have Roma waiting in your Netflix queue"	NEU
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"A strange, scattered attempt (...) The movie simply doesn’t know what it aspires to"	NEG
United States	Caroline Siede AV Club	"It remains fairly watchable even as it veers around wildly in tone (...) That 'Second Act' doesn’t feel nearly as messy as it sounds on paper largely comes down to Lopez"	NEU
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"The stupidest film of the year (...) Jennifer Lopez can’t act, the meatheads responsible for the stupidest screenplay of the year can’t write"	NEG
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Lopez is charming as ever in the mostly amiable Cinderella story, but a second act twist changes everything (and not for the better)."	NEU
United States	Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"Even the boundless charms of Jennifer Lopez cannot overcome a mess of a script in 'Second Act'."	NEG

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