It has possibilities baked into it, and little to show for them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 24, 2024

Director Michael Lembeck handles it all with an anonymous efficiency.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2022

A winning cast weaves a warm dramedy about love amongst the elderly.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 26, 2021

Never mind that the film has choppy production values, plays like a paid advertisement for retirement communities, and is so sweet that you may get diabetes from the script. Most senior citizens are going to love it.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2021

Queen Bees manages to touch on some heavy subjects like the inability to continue your independence while at the same time delivers some amusing moments that may even leave you smiling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.75/4 | Jun 30, 2021

It's a film that seems to have been dreamt up by a reverent grandchild who assumed they knew everything there was to know and never thought to ask the grandparent themselves.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2021

Nothing to offend here, just a pleasant time-filler that will help you while away an afternoon and give you an excuse to eat some movie theater popcorn.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Jun 18, 2021

Feels like a TV movie, quite frankly... I didn't think there was great chemistry between Burstyn and Caan.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2021

Just like the card game that brings its characters together, this run-of-the-mill film could have an upside: providing a bridge for conversation between generations.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2021

An ideal date night or friends' group evening out. Love is love and there's no expiration date. Or, as Curtin's bossy biddy says, tongue planted firmly in cheek, "Eighty is the new 18."

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2021

As a fellow viewer noted, Queen Bees provides sweet, sometimes touching, entertainment. Yet the movie doesn't invite a second viewing.

Full Review | Jun 13, 2021

Pleasant enough to warrant almost two hours of your time.

Full Review | Jun 13, 2021

An esteemed cast cannot rescue this sweet yet contrived golden-years romantic comedy that doesn't exactly age gracefully.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2021

The cast gets A's, but "Queen Bees" gets a C-.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2021

All of these actors have had stellar, awards-laden careers, and this new film, which could be described as Mean Girls in a retirement home, proves they still have a lot of firepower left.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2021

To the filmmakers' (minor) credit, they do briefly touch on issues like dementia and loneliness, but too little too late.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 11, 2021

Nice to see this legendary crew, led by the luminescent Ellen Burstyn, prove it's never too late to find love, friendship or take risks. Donald Martin's screenplay is acerbically hilarious

Full Review | Jun 11, 2021

A TV movie. How did Loretta Divine not kill these writers?

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 11, 2021

This is a movie that's far more effective than its buzz. Because if this picture does anything (and yes, it does), it proves good, experienced actors can elevate even the most ordinary of scripts.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2021

There are fine moments here, and there are also a lot of sappy, jokey, manipulative, and insincere ones.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 11, 2021