Unplanned: reviews

What the critics say average 2.0 from 3

• 4.0 Los Angeles TimesKimber Myers With its solid production values, 'Unplanned' has all the appearances of being a real film, but viewers in favor of abortion rights will find it to be pure propaganda. Writer-directors Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon spend more time making their talking points than developing their characters, who exist merely to make their arguments. Read
• 2.0 The GuardianJordan Hoffman "Don?t get too excited. The sex is off-screen, but results in a lot of out-of-wedlock pregnancy. And the gore doesn?t come from action-adventure sequences, but from grisly abortion complications in which chunks of bloody fetal tissue slap against cold tile floors. It?s disgusting, and could even work as effective anti-choice propaganda if it wasn?t so ham-handedly stitched together. Abortion is a serious topic. This movie is ridiculous." Read
• 0.0 The A.V. ClubVadim Rizov There?s not a single scene that speaks to characters with lives outside their streamlined narrative function; they?re performers in a parable traced over a Chick tract, filmed with a bland competence at odds with the true perversity of the material. Old-school Pure Flix: Welcome back! Read
• VarietyOwen Gleiberman "'Unplanned' isn?t a good movie, but it?s effective propaganda ? or, at least, it is if you belong to the group it?s targeting: those who believe that abortion in America, though a legal right, is really a crime...There?s no arguing with this point of view, and that?s the whole problem with it. 'Unplanned' views humanity itself in black and white." Read
• The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck "Writers-directors Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman have outdone themselves with this effort that demonizes Planned Parenthood to such a degree that you expect the organization to be the villain in the next Marvel movie. There have been films that treated Nazi doctors conducting evil experiments in concentration camps more sympathetically...One wonders why Unplanned, which resembles a basic cable television movie in its mediocre production values and subpar performances, was made." Read