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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88TheWrapYolanda MachadoTheWrapYolanda MachadoWine Country shows that women in their 50s are in one of the best phases of their lives, a time to be celebrated, welcomed, and enjoyed with good friends and good wine.
- 80The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeWine Country is scrappy and, at times, misjudged but it’s also very, very funny with a cast of women whose collective charm makes the patchier moments forgivable. Watching it with wine helps too.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerSan Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerJudging by her funny, warm, drawn-from-life feature directing debut Wine Country, Amy Poehler is a gracious friend. She and screenwriters Emily Spivey and Liz Cackowski ensure that the many former “Saturday Night Live” performers and writers assembled for this Napa Valley-set Netflix comedy get moments to shine.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenPoehler's adept at showcasing not just the comic gifts of her cast, whose decades-long friendships began in improv theaters and at SNL, but also the joyful vamping that connects their characters.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe friends we see on-screen are equally close in real life, and the outing depicted in Wine Country was inspired by similar trips they’ve made together. That explains the second-nature chemistry that makes them so much fun to watch, even when the shenanigans...leave one longing for the outrageousness of an all-female studio comedy like “Bridesmaids” or “Girls Trip.”
- 60Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangIt isn’t good, exactly — as boozy friend-reunion comedies go, it’s no “Girls Trip” or “The World’s End” — but it has its ticklish grace notes, plus some first-rate second and third bananas, despite a script that seems to be working both too hard and not hard enough.
- 50Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownThe film’s relatively static approach to narrative works in scenes where the material is funny or elevated by a certain performance.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversIt’s clear that a verité, fly-on-the-wall record of these SNL livewires on vacation would have made a hilarious documentary. What we have instead follows the Sitcom 101 formula.
- 50The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe comedy is situational and confessional, the flat one-liners mixed in with more memorable physical comedy. The scripted lines rarely zing, sing or sting (some seem improvised), but when the performers fall down or screw up their faces, you get to watch them fill in their characters with something like real feeling.
- 42The PlaylistKimber MyersThe PlaylistKimber MyersYou absolutely want to hang out with these charming, amusing women off-screen, but the time spent with their on-screen counterparts isn’t nearly as fun as you’d hope.