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April's Shower
Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 3 out of 8
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    The phrase "lesbian comedy" is not exactly an oxymoron, but April's Shower is still a rarity, an expansive, talky and often zany romantic farce, with lesbian characters at its center.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    60
    Yet despite the absurdities and predictable outcome, April's Shower is enjoyable, primarily for its refreshingly volatile approach to sexual orientation.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    40
    And whenever the film shifts from spunky "let's put on a show" fun to overly earnest drama, it slows to a crawl, with mawkish performances that fail to rise above the soggy material.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ben Kenigsberg
    40
    Tepid lesbian comedy.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    40
    The joys of farce are fumbled in April's Shower, star-director-writer Trish Doolan's arch and undernourished comedy about a bridal shower turned on its head by the bride's lesbian past.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    The result feels as if she (Trish Doolan) gathered all her friends, turned on her camera and let them loose. Which is perfectly fine, if you don't expect anyone to pay to watch the finished product.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    30
    The movie suffers from a malady common to tiny indies of the let's-put-on-a-show variety -- it strains for irrepressibly nutty, but lands squarely in annoying.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    Painfully sincere. But it wrings almost no laughs or tears from this seemingly idiot-proof premise.
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