Groundhog Day - Movie Reviews (2024)

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Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2023

Chicago connections are many for the Bill Murray classic that’s funny, poignant and way better than sweet vermouth on the rocks, with a twist.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2023

As home releases and re-releases start to fall into a bit of an endless cycle, it makes a weird bit of sense that Groundhog Day would lack a certain excitement and feel like more of what we’ve seen, yet still bring about a little bit of joy.

Full Review | Jan 20, 2023

Nothing suggested that this would gather steam over time and emerge as one of the most respected comedies of the past 30 years.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 14, 2023

This delightful romantic comedy, directed by Harold Ramis, is rich in fantasy and unexpectedly funny twists.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 11, 2023

Groundhog Day is a Scrooge-like comedy that's surprisingly delightful. It poses a very interesting question: What would happen if every day were the same?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2022

There's a purity to Groundhog Day that we rarely see in movies... It's civilized, as well as the perfect entertainment of the moment.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 21, 2022

This sweetly surrealist comedy is, arguably, Murray's most irresistible effort. Groundhog Day is a warm and rewarding story about reason, reckoning, and romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 21, 2022

Director Harold Ramis handles the situation beautifully. A potentially silly premise takes on Capraesque qualities and delights.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day could have been a dull one-joke film, but Murray and Ramis make it work by doggedly pursuing the implications of their outlandish premise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2022

This is without doubt the wittiest Bill Murray film ever, filled with verbal, physical and even thematic gags that satisfy on several levels simultaneously.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day is a charming and hilarious film. Or did I already say that? Anyway, it is worth repeating.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

What [Bill Murray] really wants is to be corny. He achieves his goal in this amusing, sentimental, sometimes slack but thoroughly entertaining comedy.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day might have been a mere gimmick movie, but it isn't; it's something better -- a gentle fantasy of both paralysis and liberation.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day is a fresh and inventive film filled with laughs and thought-provoking ideas. I loved it.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

Occasionally, Groundhog Day buries its head in dumb-comedy clichés. But the film-makers have depended mostly on witty dialogue, and on the simple elegance of the premise -- which could be about anyone whose days all start to seem the same.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

This is an exceptionally sparky film. It uses the medium of cinema as only cinema can be used -- to re-edit reality. It restores a fresh breath of fantasy to the generally stale air of the sitcom world.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day is an intriguing fable that almost overstays its welcome but never quite folds up under scrutiny.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

Even at its most negligible, Harold Ramis' film is intensely cinematic, not because he is some kind of genius director -- he's not -- but because in the end it's down to film language whether the hero is in hell or in heaven.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day combines Saturday Night Live shtick with Twilight Zone weirdness, and when it works, it's hilarious... Two-thirds of the way through, however, Groundhog Day turns syrupy, ruining much of the fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 21, 2022