A nefarious delight, Baby Boom excels at making the audience think it's watching a feminist comedy like Nine to Five—while delivering essentially the opposite. Keaton's final fuck-you to the board of directors—who want to hire her back after coldly letting her go when her work fell behind—feels triumphant, but it only takes place so the film can complete her transformation into the Suzie Homemaker she always denied she would become.
Michael Koresky
August 6, 2012