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 ...

Two movies in, and nobody can accuse the “Simple Favor” franchise of not knowing what it wants to be. Speaking to a SXSW audience after the world premiere of “Another Simple Favor,” Blake Lively ...

There is little not to like or at least appreciate about 2018’s A Simple Favor. Stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively have tremendous chemistry that comes through very different energies, and the film ...

The first Simple Favor, from 2018, was a playful, shallow mystery most notable for casting the lovely, languid Blake Lively as a cynical, devious clothes horse named Emily Nelson. A high-powered ...

Another Simple Favor is so focused on adding twist after twist to the story that it ends up twisting itself into an incomprehensible knot where nearly all of the magic that made the first film work is ...

Another Simple Favor is definitely not the most necessary sequel, which is perhaps why its ratings are lower than the original movie. The ending of A Simple Favor, which was released in 2018, ...

The twists and turns in "Another Simple Favor" are fashioned after a bad mystery novel, but self-awareness doesn't excuse a clunker. Unfortunately that's what the sequel to the surprise 2018 hit is, ...

Like a cocktail made of ingredients that aren’t meant to go together, but that stimulate your taste buds in a just sweet-and-tart, gin-and-blood-orange enough way that you keep sipping it, “A Simple ...

With its jaw-dropping twists, the excellent noir mystery “A Simple Favor” was a surprise hit in 2018. The clever black comedy was dark and delightful, showcasing the witty banter between stars Blake ...