Name : Maricar Estrella / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
If you're willing to dive deep into the dark side of parenthood, this is the film for you.

Name : Dana Stevens / Alias : Slate
The dad minds behind Bad Moms don't seem to understand, or be terribly curious about, the minds of mothers .

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Hahn hijacks the film and makes it her showcase. She's rude and crude in a physical, full-body performance, and half her lines seem improvised, because she spits them out like a spray of machine gun bullets.

Name : Mara Reinstein / Alias : Us Weekly
The raunchy comedy is the equivalent of drinking a poolside margarita while the kids are at camp. It's a load of empty calories - but, boy, does it go down easy.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
Bad Moms is full of bad language and worse behaviour, but bottom line, it's a valentine to moms everywhere. Despite what you've been seeing all summer on the big screen, real superheroes wear aprons, not capes.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
If only these "Bad Moms" were a little worse, their movie would be a hell of a lot better.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
What makes "Bad Moms" funny (aside from its lineup of gifted performers) isn't that Amy and her friends go wild; they don't, not even close. It's the women's shared, near-orgiastic pleasure in their freedom and friendship.

Name : Julia Cooper / Alias : Globe and Mail
Although all these actors prove the shrewd casting choices of Bad Moms, it is Hahn who makes this unassuming summer blockbuster something close to stellar.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
The movie cops out by going soft in the end, but it's still hardcore hilarity for stressed moms looking for a girls night out.

Name : Sonia Rao / Alias : Boston Globe
Living up to to the low expectations set by its title, "Bad Moms" does little to surpass them.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Bright and fast and absurd and sloppy, a flick that lives - or dies - by how much you dig watching Bell wear a pink hoodie and pretend to be an uncircumcised penis. (Answer: a lot.)

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Beneath all of its hard-R partying, rebellious debauchery, and profanity, it taps into something very real and insidious in the zeitgeist. It's one of the funniest movies of the year-and one of the most necessary.

Name : Jody Mitori / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For a summer escape, skip the book club this month and take your friends to the movies instead.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
"The Hangover" for working mothers, only funnier, smarter and sweeter.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Even when things soften and turn sweet toward the end-including an unexpectedly emotional segment during the closing credits that I will not spoil for you-Bad Moms retains an appealing wrongness.

Name : Kara Nesvig / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Bad Moms" was written and directed by men, and you can totally tell that they tried really hard to write a movie that women would enjoy and identify with. Emphasis on tried.

Name : Mark Olsen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Like husbands who think that carrying in the groceries is really pitching in, Lucas and Moore have their hearts in the right place, but their efforts have little real insight or impact.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildly amusing, moderately raunchy, mostly schematic .

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
It sells its characters' struggle short by shuffling their kids off screen whenever it's convenient, and not even in the name of comical neglect; there always seems to be time and money to get a sitter.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
"Bad Moms" keeps settling for less than it should, given the talent on screen.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A good-natured girl-power comedy that balances a bland sitcom structure with some weird and hilarious moments.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The movie plays like Mean Girls with a big dollop of middle-aged wish fulfillment.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Despite its name, this is a fluffy cupcake of a movie - and sometimes, a cupcake is just what you want.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
For a movie that traffics in the messiness of life, "Bad Moms" wraps up a little too tidily. Then again, maybe a happy ending is just what an audience full of exhausted moms deserves.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Variety
The laughter this movie offers could provide cathartic medicine for the middle-class mom blues.

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
Beneath that patina of penis jokes and four-letter words beats a weak and sentimental heart that fails to deliver the film's promise of raucous fun, instead wasting a talented cast of comediennes on cliche platitudes on motherhood.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
Bad Moms had so many opportunities to be great, edgy and insightful, but instead settles for the most milquetoast commentary possible on modern motherhood.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
The women are game, at least. Kunis, Hahn and Kristen Bell form the movie's trio, and pry two or three laughs out of the script, but that amounts only to one each. They deserve better, and so do you.

Name : Alison Willmore / Alias : BuzzFeed News
It's a movie with a subversive skepticism about traditional white picket fence domesticity in general.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
The plot kicks into high gear - and into mature-audiences-only levels of bawdy brazenness rarely seen in Hollywood movies centered on women's lives - when Kunis hits that legendary last nerve about which mothers everywhere have always warned us.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Tribune News Service
"Bad Moms" makes a compelling argument for embracing imperfection and vulnerability, but we shouldn't have to accept that kind of messiness in our movies.

Name : Raakhee Mirchandani / Alias : New York Daily News
If you've birthed a tiny human or know someone who has, it's time to find a babysitter, call the girlfriends and get to "Bad Moms" - the raucous, sexy and crass comedy packed with loads of mother-funny jokes.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Something tells me a lot of good moms will find some real truths contained within the bawdy antics of Bad Moms.

Name : Kate Erbland / Alias : indieWIRE
A female-driven story that doesn't shy away from bad behavior while also touting the importance of familial bonds and solid parenting choices.

Name : Jon Frosch / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Hahn . injects what could have been another insipid studio hack job with a bracing shot of personality.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
An effective if flawed psychological thriller, a modest campfire story with a solid, genuinely startling twist that is likely to restore the faith of some of [Shyamalan's] critics.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
The best studio horror flick in recent years, combining the but-what's-in-those-shadows? immersion of The Conjuring, James Wan's basement-wandering simulator, with the crack scripting and meta-cinematic surprises of Shyamalan's best early films.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Alas, it's a dopey, only mildly chilling, uneasy mix of horror and dark comedy, scoring few points in either category.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
It's creepy, sure, but not very enjoyable, basement or no.

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
For all its intelligence and craft, M. Night Shyamalan's foray into the genre of found-footage horror has the feeling of homework done well.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : TheWrap
Startling but never terrifying, "The Visit" may make a little money, but it does not mark a return to long-lost greatness for Shyamalan. It's more of the same, presented on a smaller, cheaper canvas where you can see every flaw all the more clearly.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
I hear Hollywood whispers. I feel something is amiss. I see dead directorial reputations. And I smell a comeback.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Following a creative low period that found the director trying his hand at effects-driven fantasy and sci-fi, it can't help but come across as a comeback.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The director M. Night Shyamalan has a fine eye and a nice, natural way with actors, and he has a talent for gently rap-rap-rapping on your nerves.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
Frightfully fun, with Shyamalan relentless toying with us and cramming in horror genre references.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
While the production values are simple, the script is sneakily complex. Like the best horror merchants, Shyamalan exploits our secret fears - in this case, of old age, ill health and dementia.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
It was fun watching this with a gasping and screaming audience. For horror-goers, the comparative competence must hit the spot. But there's nothing new here - and what I sensed for 94 minutes was compromise.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Here is a movie in which old people are scary because they're senile and icky and incontinent and do baffling things. And they're, you know, so old and wrinkly.

Name : Clark Collis / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Suffice to say that the result is an effective scare machine and a semi-return to form for its creator.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
The Visit is lightweight and doesn't have the emotional resonance of The Sixth Sense, but it's a welcome return to form for a director who seemed doomed to a future of remembering better days.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
A scary fun-house ride that expertly blends jittery tension and laugh-out-loud humor, it will make you forgive the filmmaker for such major time-wasters as "Lady in the Water," "After Earth" and "The Happening."

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
An unoriginal faux-doc horror picture that actually works like a demonic charm.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
The result is a bizarre, conflicted mess, horrifying when it's trying to be funny, oddly appealing when it turns the screws.

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Much like Shyamalan's flawed/interesting films "Signs" and "The Village," the filmmaker promises more than he can deliver.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Not in the same league as The Sixth Sense, but Shyamalan ends a long dry spell with The Visit. No spoilers, except to say that cheap thrills can still be a blast.

Name : Steve Tilley / Alias : Toronto Sun
Fortunately, The Visit has a lot of (intentional!) laughs between the creepy bits and jump scares, and never takes itself too seriously.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Dunagan and McRobbie have a blast in their respective roles, alternating between everyday grandparent oddities and behavior that wouldn't be out of place at the Overlook Hotel. And overall, the young duo makes an affable pair of narrators.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
By remaining a smartly staged thriller rather than a formula shocker, it does quite well with precisely what it set out to do: play on all our fears like a Steinway grand piano.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Isn't the whole handheld "real-video" thing kind of old by now? Isn't the Shyamalanian-twist thing kind of old by now, too?

Name : Michael Sragow / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The honorable tradition of American moviemakers wringing laughs and gasps from bucolic lunatics dates back to "Murder, He Says" (1945). Unfortunately, "The Visit" isn't part of it.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The low-budget thriller deftly mixes horror-movie moments, pure strangeness and comedy like a family-friendly David Lynch effort as it takes audiences on one really oddball trip to grandma's house.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
M. Night Shyamalan's latest film may well have been his last chance at redemption. Fortunately, he rises to the challenge and makes The Visit good, scary fun.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
Even if there's less chance the audience will burst out in fits of inappropriate chuckles, as was often the case in, say, "The Happening" or "Lady in the Water," Shyamalan still can't quite pull off the delicate tonal balance he's after.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Despite a promising premise and effective "Shyamalan twist", this low-budget horror film still underwhelms.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The Atlantic
It is with some surprise-and perhaps even a hint of disappointment-that I must report that The Visit is merely mediocre and not the breathtaking calamity that we've come to anticipate from its author.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
[Shyamalan's] manipulation of tone is impressive - he gets you to laugh at the grandparents' strange behavior, only to shift gears into horror when you least expect it.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
A relentlessly tense journey into the bizarre, with jolts that linger and some nicely played melancholy. What's more, the movie is often surprisingly, wickedly funny .

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
There's undeniable fun in watching a couple of veteran actors get strange with two newcomers. "The Visit" may be worth one.

Name : Peter Hall / Alias : New York Daily News
A messed-up fairy tale that often nails the sweet spot between scaring us and letting us laugh at how scared we are. It's crowd-pleasing horror, the kind that can push moviegoers to the edge of their seats and send them to the water cooler the next day.