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Metascore®33 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    "Stories" makes a better Christmas movie than those generic comedies manufactured this time of year. The hits-to-misses ratio for its gags is above average, the sentimentality is kept in check and the film plays well to its audience. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Lael Loewenstein

    With Bedtime Stories, Sandler has delivered on his promise to make a movie his kids can enjoy. What's more, he's managed to do so without alienating his core audience. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This is a harmless and pleasant Disney comedy and one of only three family movies playing over the holidays. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The fantasy segments, played up in trailers, get bogged down amid the ho-hum tale of a loser making good. Read full review

  • 50
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    This is a rare time when young ones will get more out of a Sandler movie than their parents, who may have grown up with him when he was on "Saturday Night Live." Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | Tim Grierson

    While no one was expecting the live-wire daring of "Punch-Drunk Love" or even "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," the Adam Sandler who shows up in Bedtime Stories is that most unnecessary of movie-star guises: the benign family-comedy guy. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    Soured by its enervated star and uninspired writing, the movie offers only tiny moments of joy, like a hailstorm of gumballs that's unexpectedly magical. Read full review

  • 25
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Sandler’s laziness, sloppiness, and cynical pandering are all over Bedtime Stories, and it turns what’s intended to be a graceful intersection of fairytale whimsy and real-world slapstick into an ugly, head-on collision. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    It's a dispirited, galumphing mess. Read full review

  • 20
    Time | Richard Corliss

    After sitting through this fractious fairy tale, we feel as plucked as a Christmas goose. Read full review