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37 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 28
  3. Negative: 11 out of 28
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    75
    I laughed all the way through it.
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  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    67
    A good-natured movie.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    63
    Sometimes hilarious but mostly sitcom-esque geezer comedy.
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  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    63
    Often livens up stale material with disarming loopiness and zest.
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  5. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    63
    Chaotic, sometimes funny.
  6. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Gemma Files
    60
    No classic, but two hours well-spent nonetheless.
  7. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    58
    Drowns in flat, clumsy and obvious direction.
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  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Howard Cohen
    50
    Amiable, sporadically amusing farce.
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  9. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    50
    Tired comedy.
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  10. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    Dogged allegiance to blandness.
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  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Steve Simels
    50
    Much better than you'd expect, largely thanks to an extremely game cast.
  12. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    50
    It's sunny and cheerful without coming off as too saccharine.
  13. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    50
    For the large-type crowd, one that prefers to have its "dirty" clean and silly.
  14. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    50
    A pleasant surprise that The Crew offers up the charms it does.
  15. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    40
    Some of it is, I'll admit, pretty funny.
  16. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    40
    The sentimentality is gently but firmly restrained in a potentially treacly subplot.
  17. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    40
    The acting--especially Dreyfuss's ability to roll with the mood swings--is impressive if not redemptive.
  18. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    The Crew is all contrivance and we don't believe a minute of it.
  19. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    38
    The "Golden Girls" with gats.
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  20. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    36
    Fuhgeddaboutit.
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  21. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    30
    So mild, so benign, its humiliation-to-vindication are so predictable and its old-folks jokes so feeble.
  22. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    25
    Seems it's never going to reach liftoff.
  23. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    25
    Fanaro's script never really hones in on the concept's potential.
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  24. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    25
    Each man's shtick swells into a frenzy of overacting.
  25. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Russell Smith
    20
    Most folks are just plain bored -- and I mean cross-eyed, wall-climbing, deep-down-to-the-molecular-level bored -- with this ubiquitous Endearing Wiseguys school of movie comedy.
  26. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    20
    There are moments that suggest the comedy that could have been.
  27. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nico Baumbach
    20
    The humor is even more geriatric than the cast.
  28. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    20
    When a burning rat is the funniest thing in your movie, I think you're in big trouble, even in Miami.
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