Book Club

Stale jokes and cringe-inducing sight gags punctuate this creaky romantic comedy.

There's a great sense of camaraderie in it all but it could have been so much better with a script that rejected the obvious.

To have four female actors of this calibre in the one place and not give them something less mediocre is a lost opportunity.

It's great to see these veterans working in major roles, but a shame that the characters they play aren't more interesting.

It's not so much the reductive message that the path to happiness must be walked alongside a man; more that the writing is wincingly awful.

Yes, we desperately, as an audience, need this film. Just not, well, this one. Because it's rubbish.

The result is a rather dull and monotonous affair that shouldn’t have been made.

To some Book Club will be inane and superfluous. To those with appreciative tastes for the talent involved, they will find satisfying enjoyment in watching these women shine as they do best.

Book Club made me want to give up reading altogether.

What's most disappointing about these ladies reading Fifty Shades is how uncritical they are of it.