Calum Cooper Source (Scotland) Jul 14, 2024 2/5

I feel like there’s a well-meaning intention behind Second Act. But there’s next to no originality or spontaneity to be found on screen.

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M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut Aug 17, 2022 1/5

Filled with endless zingers that hit the ground like a bowling ball from a 10th-floor window, Second Act is tedious from the start. There is nothing worse than low-brow pretending to be high-class.

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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Feb 17, 2022 3/5

a ripe slice of cheese, with silly pratfalls for a game star

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Lonita Cook KCTV5 News at 9 Oct 2, 2021

You're going to love [the cast].

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Diane Shipley Bitch Media Mar 12, 2021

It goes with a twist that's as sentimental as it is improbable.

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Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Feb 3, 2021 2/5

Sees Lopez doing her best with a script that requires little more from her than sitting on the subway looking introspective. This story of second chances won't hold up to a second viewing.

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Candice McMillan Seattle Refined Jan 29, 2021

What the film also accomplishes is both solidifying Lopez's timeless charm and revealing her aging audience.

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Tom Beasley Flickering Myth Aug 16, 2020 3/5

All of this solid comedy material, however, is sidelined when the story decides it needs to minimise the laughs and get the melodrama moving.

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Matt Cipolla Film Monthly Jul 26, 2020 2/5

[After 45 minutes, Second Act] panders like crazy to its audience, which is especially rich given the many lines about how 'consumers are getting smarter and smarter' nowadays.

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Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review Jul 14, 2020 1.5/4

In a true Christmas miracle, everything about Second Act, the new Jennifer Lopez film, manages to scream that it's both trying too hard and not trying hard enough.

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Dan Scully Cinema76 Mar 18, 2020

Look at the poster for Second Act. You know if you're going to see this, and if you are, you'll probably dig it for the most part. Even by that standard, this is lower tier material.

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Julian Lytle idobi.com Jan 10, 2020 6/10

A movie about family that's masquerading as a romantic comedy that might be a bit too saccharine.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Oct 28, 2019 3/4

...perpetually affable (if awfully conventional)...

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Amy Nicholson FilmWeek (LAist) Sep 13, 2019

I loved the first half of this and thought that the second half got completely insane in a way I did not appreciate.

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Andiee Paviour Nobody's Reading This But Me Jul 7, 2019 2.5/5

As J.Lo's latest movie love-interest so rightly observes, "It ain't over until it's over" - and it certainly ain't over for supermarket assistant manager Maya.

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Zehra Phelan HeyUGuys Jun 5, 2019 3/5

It's a familiar story, but one that's delivered with style, with Lopez and Hudgens standing out.

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Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie May 6, 2019 3.5/5

There's something fun and sweet and innocent about it that you can't help but enjoy.

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Peter Gray This is Film May 2, 2019

Fans of Lopez and this type of makeover comedy are sure to respond positively to Peter Segal's amusing, if cautious film.

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Cate Marquis We Are Movie Geeks Apr 18, 2019 1/5

Since the film's characters talk endlessly about being honest, it might be nice if the film had a little more honesty itself.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Apr 16, 2019 2/4

For a movie that imagines itself as a smart seriocomedy, Second Act can be awfully dumb.

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