A Simple Favor - Movie Reviews (2024)

Feig and his creative team weren’t willing to follow their leads to a weirder, more disturbing, and more satisfying film.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2024

A devilishly fun time from Paul Feig, thanks in large part to Blake Lively's sinister performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 18, 2023

Paul Feig's super stylish and fun suburban noir features Anna Kendrick in a solid, albeit very familiar Kendrick role. It's Lively, however, who steals the show with hera sexy, confident, multi-faceted performance

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2023

... a neo-noir of suburban pep and middle-class warmth meeting cool sophistication.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2023

I will go to my grave screaming about how great (and criminally underrated) A Simple Favor is.

Full Review | Nov 1, 2022

It’s an odd movie that’s all over the genre map yet it doesn’t firmly land anywhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

It's got strands of DNA from Gone Girl, Bad Moms, The Ice Storm and Frank Perry's near-lost Compromising Positions, and it's a candy-colored cupcake made with buttercream and bile about those who strive to maintain the illusion of perfection.

Full Review | Sep 10, 2021

Episode 8: Sex, Lies and Predator

Full Review | Original Score: 76/100 | Aug 28, 2021

One of the most pleasant surprises of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 21, 2021

Blake Lively's clothing and style in this movie slayed me, and made me want to go out and buy myself a pant suit, even though I don't have the height and physique to pull it off.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 7, 2021

Motivations shift and the twists pile up as the plot takes a darker tone. Trouble is, it takes too long to get where it is going.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

I was sure I knew where things were headed multiple times before they veered off in another direction.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2021

It has enough interesting material about #momlife, frenemies, and women who can't stop apologizing that its genre-crossing tonal weirdness becomes part of its charm.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 4, 2021

A Hitchco*ck-style missing-woman story, in the guise of a light Martini-mystery. And it kind of works.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

The picture struggles to create a truly unique identity; it's derivative of enough other properties to keep it interesting, but originality eludes it at every turn.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 7, 2020

The movie works best when it becomes this Nancy Drew mystery. Twists and turns a plenty as a way of showing its elevated tone.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2020

Deliciously set off by a soundtrack of chichi French pop songs, the film drips with deadpan hilarity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2020

A Simple Favor could have worked quite well in the hands of a more capable filmmaker. Feig, however, is too workmanlike . . . to boil this mystery from the inside out.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

In short, there's nothing too fancy going on here (apart from Lively's wardrobe), just some actors killing it in a bright and cheery noir. Which is to say that it's a blast.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2020

A Simple Favor is an intriguing, darkly comic thriller that keeps things moving at a well-paced clip and never lets the plot get ahead of itself

Full Review | Jun 29, 2020