Half Magic

Name: Half Magic
Director: Heather Graham
Released: 2018

Heather Graham

2018

Synopsis

Three women use their newly formed sisterhood to fight against sexism, bad relationships and low self-esteem. Through embracing their wild adventures, they learn the secret to ultimate fulfillment.

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75
Chicago Sun-Times
[An] uneven but timely and quite funny feminist satire.
63
Slant Magazine
The film displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of characters seeking to live by their own feminine-centric rules.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
While the pic proves too frivolous to make its satirical and social points fully register, it offers diverting pleasures along the way.
50
Movie Nation
The picture lacks for nothing but big laughs.
50
Philadelphia Daily News
Graham has crafted some decent monologues for her characters.... But, even at a hair over an hour and a half, the movie would benefit from a good trim, one that might give the movie’s parallel romantic stories more shape and snap.
50
Los Angeles Times
As the writer-director's sly gaze shifts into an insistently upbeat appeal for female empowerment, the movie loses its comic steam.
50
Variety
Half Magic is hobbled by a debut director’s desire to be liked. But Graham’s passion is sincere, even if her tone and rushed pace — the byproduct of cramming in every idea in case she doesn’t get a second chance — teeters on sitcom.
40
Austin Chronicle
You could say it’s toothless most of the time.