Click here to copy URL

Maggie Moore(s)

2023

John Slattery

Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, Nick Mohammed, Allison Dunbar ...

5.5

485

Drama When two women with the same name are murdered within days of each other, small-town police chief Jordan Sanders finds himself traversing an unlikely collection of cheating husbands, lonely hearts, nosy neighbours and hired killers in an effort to put the pieces of the case, and his life, together.

	Media	Author	Review
		Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"Jon Hamm and Tina Fey can’t save this tonal mess of a crime comedy"
		Michael Nordine Variety	"Jon Hamm and Tina Fey will make you wish this dark crime comedy were a rom-com (...) The film struggles to reconcile its tonal dissonance"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"If the competing elements don’t totally come together here, Slattery (...) proves he is just as talented behind the screen as he is in front of it"
		Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"What Slattery conjures... for some reason, is a continual sourness and decay, which gets into every crevice of the action"
		Taylor Gates Collider	"Unfunny, unmysterious comedic mystery"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Jon Hamm’s intriguing crime comedy (...) Desert noir’s crackling cast, including Tina Fey and Nick Mohammed, handles the clever dialogue with aplomb (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"Jon Hamm and Tina Fey's film reunion is shockingly dull"
		John Serba Decider	"[It] is middling, but not frustratingly so. I recommend you STREAM IT, but tabling it until it’s free on a streaming service seems like your most prudent option"
		Samantha Bergeson IndieWire	"Jon Hamm and Tina Fey bring signature chemistry to otherwise dull rom-com crime caper"
		Andy Crump Paste Magazine	"There's nothing wrong with a messy low-level crime movie done right"
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"The movie struggles to get out of second gear"
		Josh Bell CBR	"There's not much to the murder mystery in 'Maggie Moore(s)', but star Jon Hamm carries the movie with his affable, charming screen presence"
		Seth Katz Slant	"[It] lacks cohesion and novelty (...) The story’s center isn’t strong enough for the rest of its disparate parts to hold (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Belen Edwards Mashable	"The film's dance between comedy and a darker tone is mostly successful, creating an engaging romp of a thriller. But it's the performances that really makes 'Maggie Moore(s)' pop"
		Brian Tallerico The Playlist	"It’s a film with select moments, largely because of the screen chemistry of its leads, but it never coheres into anything consistent (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"A messy small-town crime comedy"
		Noah Berlatsky Chicago Reader	"This crime-thriller-rom-com tries to be too many movies at once"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"While most of the comedy never lands & is half-baked, the film has a winning cast & a serviceable true crime premise that will keep you interested (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"Nothing in the story really sticks, or stings. The ace cast makes the movie better. But they deserved a better movie"

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.