Another Simple Favor Is So Fun, Until It Gets So Dumb

Another Simple Favor Is So Fun, Until It Gets So Dumb

Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick return for ‘Another Simple Favor,’ a sequel that is so fun until it gets so dumb. Our review.

'Another Simple Favor' review: Blake Lively is at her best bad and mad

Not every movie needs a sequel. 2018's sharply funny thriller A Simple Favor certainly didn't seem poised for one, as its happy ending plopped its duplicitous villainess in prison with a decades-long sentence. But when you created a bad bitch as wickedly fun to watch as Emily Nelson — aka Hope McLanden — wouldn't it be a crime to lock her up for good? You bet your ass, baby. Blake Lively returns as the fearsome and fashion-forward femme fatale, …

Another Simple Favor Review

Another Simple Favor streams on Prime Video beginning May 1. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 SXSW Film and Television Festival.A sequel doesn’t have to be bigger, although many of them, including Another Simple Favor, choose to go this route. It doesn’t even have to be better, really, given the low expectations audiences historically have for follow-ups. What it has to be is more – specifically, more of whatever made the first fi…

Another Simple Favor (SXSW) Review: a fun lark but not as good as the original

PLOT: Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), who’s reinvented herself as an amateur investigator (as well as being a mommy blogger), is convinced by her old foe, Emily (Blake Lively), to attend her extravagant destination wedding in Capri. REVIEW: A Simple Favor was a surprisingly effective potboiler, anchored by two ace performances from Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. Plus, it had snappy direction from Paul Feig and a tight script that somehow ma…