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Critics Consensus: Half Magic never quite fulfills its apparent goals, but this comedy from writer-director-star Heather Graham is still occasionally affably diverting.
Critic Consensus: Half Magic never quite fulfills its apparent goals, but this comedy from writer-director-star Heather Graham is still occasionally affably diverting.
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A stumble backward in its cartoony portrait of modern-day womanhood.
Along the way, Graham, Kinsey and Beatriz trade some hilariously X-rated dialogue.
While Half Magic proves too frivolous to make its satirical and social points fully register, it offers diverting pleasures along the way.
There's charm and smarts to the healthy positivity, but without the balancing sting of the earlier sections, the intended abracadabra goes up in smoke.
Heather Graham's Wiccan romantic comedy is one part wish fulfillment, two parts justified fury.
If there were ever a movie to propel the #MeToo and "Time's Up" movements to the forefront of conversation, it would be Half Magic.
While Half Magic has some elements that could have made it a great film, the pieces never fall into place.
Half Magic succeeds with the help of Graham's stellar writing, commendable direction, Beatriz, Kinsey, D'Elia, and the rest of the cast's adherence to Graham's comedic and dramatic vision, prescient themes, and three inspiring central characters.
The resulting journey yields little motivation for emotional investment, although some amusing sitcom-style scenarios and scattered big laughs come from the periphery characters and cameos.
The movie's honesty about how inured its characters have become to anything like straightforward desire is its greatest strength.
Half Magic's final destination may ultimately feel a bit predictable, but the generosity displayed on both sides of the camera throughout makes it easy to look forward to whatever [Heather] Graham does next.
Without saying much that is new or insightful about female friendship or insecurity, Half Magic is a perfectly nice, simplistic movie.
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