Review of Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023) by Mattyice34 — 15 May 2023

For what it’s worth, I enjoyed it more than the first film.

This review of Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023) was written by Mattyice34 on 15 May 2023.

Book Club: The Next Chapter has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 11 May 2023

Their film is so stuffed with incident – all of it preposterous, and occasionally insulting to the intelligence of its central quartet…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 17 May 2023

Book Club’s four stars—and others like them—deserve material that’s specific, clever, surprising in some way…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 15 May 2023

If anything, the writing in this chocolate-box travelogue of a sequel is even lazier than that of the first film, with much cackling…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for The Film Verdict (26) on 20 Jun 2023

The wisecracks could be wiser, admittedly, but there’s nothing terribly wrong with this airy, utterly innocuous, still charming…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 12 May 2023

So glibly controlled is the entire cruise, you wonder if it’s without a boatman, gliding on tracks underwater…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 10 May 2023

One of the more enjoyable dreadful films of the season…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 08 May 2023

The film is smothered with a syrup of condescension…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for TheWrap (3,203) on 08 May 2023

Perhaps it was enough for “Book Club” to merely exist as an act of rebellion against the stubbornly young-skewing studio fare…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 08 May 2023

It’s all quite wispy and anecdotal, which wouldn’t be a bad thing if Bill Holderman, the director of these films, and Erin Simms, his…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Seattle Times (964) on 10 May 2023

It may be treacly and unrealistic, but “Book Club: The Next Chapter” has heart and soul, and it’s as sweet and quaffable as an Aperol…

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