Bonneville Reviews

There's no avoiding the fact that Christopher Rowley's feature debut is as uninspired and predictable as your average Lifetime movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Bonneville is so bland and predictable, it literally takes two Oscar-winners and a multiple nominee to give it any real entertainment value.

| Original Score: 2/4

Yes, the film deals with women of an age who are usually ignored in film, and it further deals with questions of mortality and loss, which are equally overlooked. The problem is, it doesn't deal with them very well.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

It's the three leads who really make this material work. Lange is very sympathetic and relatable as Arvilla, while Bates injects some needed humor. And Allen is pitch-perfect as usual, as the film's moral center of sorts.

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Except for Jessica Lange's silent, expressive close-ups, the women's journey in Bonneville is aesthetically and dramatically unremarkable.

| Original Score: 3/5

The '66 Bonneville was a great car, but these talented ladies deserved a better vehicle.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The actresses make certain you understand their motivations and quirks. It helps Bonneville step away from Lifetime Television treacle into something palatable. Perhaps even charming.

Full Review | Original Score: B

The kind of comfy, reassuring take on human relations that makes cynics want to growl at the stranger sitting next to them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It took brass hubcaps to make Bonneville, a midlife-chick-road-trip movie starring a '66 Pontiac convertible and a trio of middle-aged driving girlfriends in cool sunglasses, and not once have the gals give props to Thelma & Louise.

Full Review | Original Score: C

In Bonneville, a talented cast is wasted, falling victim to a tired, cliche-ridden story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Bonneville insults its talented leads by casting them in parts they could have--and probably have--done in their sleep.

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A road movie that boasts pleasant company but a broken-down vehicle...in a story that seems ready-made for the Lifetime Network.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

It feels like the first healthy sign of post-Borat unification.

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The actors make us happy to be along for the ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

At the very least, Bonneville deserves to be seen as a challenge and a rebuke to our supposedly youth-obsessed age.

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Open the big cinema floodgates and Bonneville is just a trickle of Poland Spring, but the trio of ladies are always watchable.

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This rarity in cinema -- a graying cast in a female-bonding adventure -- couldn't be more dull-humored or predictably maudlin without just calling itself The Bucket List 2.

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A tragic waste of time and talent in every sense of the word.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

The director needed to get a better grip on the destination of this scattered narrative, along with the actual journey. Though the sheer pleasure of Bonneville is simply watching these three gifted actresses work their magic on the movie.

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This is Pablum masking as a tragi-comic chick flick, and should be avoided by all thinking people.

Full Review | Original Score: D-