Although the dramatic events can be somewhat forced by circumstances, the emotions that unfold throughout the story are totally genuine.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2023

With a strong script and great performances, Grandma should be on everyone’s movie list.

Full Review | May 18, 2022

Good performances keep Grandma's relationships dynamic and by the time all is said and done the message of life goes on, hiccups and all, is subtly but powerfully enforced.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Really, it's just great to see Tomlin in the driver's seat again.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2020

Lily Tomlin holds it all together superbly and her character is so refreshing - and so rare - to see on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2019

Grandma is an unabashed look at different generational and matrilineal relationships and owning up to your actions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 2, 2019

The film does feel contrived, some lines really come out flat, and the whole story doesn't really need to take place in a day.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2019

Grandma is utterly charming and Lily Tomlin proves that she is still the comic whipper-snapper we have always loved.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

76-year-old women are not often the leads in mainstream American movies, especially not current ones, so I suppose I should be grateful, but I kept wishing this vehicle were a better one.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2019

Solid showcase that proves to have a little more substance than the trailer suggests.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 18, 2019

At a brisk 80 minutes, Grandma doesn't waste a moment in devotion to Tomlin's bravura performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 27, 2018

Achieves a perfect balance in tone between comedy and drama, in which plenty of potentially melodramatic events and situations are rendered delicately, realistically, dryly, perfectly. I loved this movie.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2018

"Grandma" tackles social issues with utter frankness, humor, and intelligence.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 21, 2018

It mostly feels as if it has been thrown together over a weekend (both the writing and the direction). But the script crackles and spits.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2018

Sweet, funny and delightfully acerbic, watching actress Lily Tomlin do her best work since earning an Oscar nom for 1976's Nashville is monumental in itself.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 26, 2018

A great role for a truly great talent, who just happens to be in her 70s. The movie is just under 90 minutes, but Tomlin delivers in that short time. Her wise-cracking one-liners are tempered by a real sense of loss and vulnerability.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 3, 2017

Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Grandma is wickedly funny, emotionally intelligent and also very brave.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2017

... Grandma is overall a funny, thoughtful, occasionally sad film about several generations of women in a family trying to deal with one another, anchored by Lily Tomlin's fantastic performance.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2017

It's a modest film that more than pays off its investment. (Among those who an take credit is Andrew Miano, one of the film's producers and a native Buffalonian.)

Full Review | Oct 11, 2017

You realize you're watching a movie-finally!-about a teenager who has an abortion and turns out fine, and it couldn't seem more honest.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2017