Death at a Funeral
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark.
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    90
    Insanely funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce.
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    88
    The lack of propriety and solemnity is precisely what makes this comic farce so uproariously funny.

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User Score
6.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 76 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 40
  3. Negative: 11 out of 40
  1. MikeH
    10
    Get's better and better every time you watch it!
  2. RichardC.
    2
    Did these critics see the same film I saw? Are they so disenchanted with American cinema that they will fool themselves into thinking this crud is "hilarious" and "outrageous"? I was appalled to be sitting in a screening with strangers who were guffawing at this decidedly low-brow humour. I agree with what another user wrote - I am all for Farrelly Bros.-type comedy if it's billed as such - but I can't abide this unquestioning Anglophilia that gives dreck like this a passing grade just because the actors don't sound like us. At times, I thought I was trapped at home on a Saturday night in mid-winter, grazing on those execrable PBS Britcoms that make up-state NY bourgeoisie feel superior to their neighbours.… Full Review »
  3. sharedsorrows
    5
    If the film is so close to the original as to also be pretty much disposable once its over for sharedsorrows.com, at least it as well serves up a healthy amount of laughs during its very brief and brisk run time.… Full Review »
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