Half Magic
Explores themes of female empowerment through sex, work, and friendship. These women are able to come together through their frustration over male dominance and in fact use their newly formed sisterhood to lean on each other and understand that they must first learn to love themselves before doing anything else.
16 September 1964, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
9 August 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 March 1972, Petaluma, California, USA
21 November 1987, New York City, New York, USA
11 March 1971, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
February 24, 2018
Half Magic succeeds with the help of Graham's stellar writing, commendable direction, Beatriz, Kinsey, D'Elia, and the rest of the cast's adherence to Graham's comedic and dramatic vision, prescient themes, and three inspiring central characters.
February 23, 2018
The movie's honesty about how inured its characters have become to anything like straightforward desire is its greatest strength.
February 22, 2018
While Half Magic proves too frivolous to make its satirical and social points fully register, it offers diverting pleasures along the way.
February 23, 2018
Without saying much that is new or insightful about female friendship or insecurity, Half Magic is a perfectly nice, simplistic movie.
February 21, 2018
Heather Graham's Wiccan romantic comedy is one part wish fulfillment, two parts justified fury.
February 22, 2018
Along the way, Graham, Kinsey and Beatriz trade some hilariously X-rated dialogue.
February 28, 2018
While Half Magic has some elements that could have made it a great film, the pieces never fall into place.
February 22, 2018
There's charm and smarts to the healthy positivity, but without the balancing sting of the earlier sections, the intended abracadabra goes up in smoke.
February 23, 2018
The resulting journey yields little motivation for emotional investment, although some amusing sitcom-style scenarios and scattered big laughs come from the periphery characters and cameos.
February 23, 2018
This male critic is guessing the film will probably resonate more with women, but that doesn't mean men can't learn something and be entertained by it.
February 23, 2018
A stumble backward in its cartoony portrait of modern-day womanhood.
February 23, 2018
Half Magic's final destination may ultimately feel a bit predictable, but the generosity displayed on both sides of the camera throughout makes it easy to look forward to whatever [Heather] Graham does next.
