| 100 |
Time
Perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year.
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| 100 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Spoofy and sweet... endearingly old-fashioned.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A venemous Valentine to Hollywood sugarcoated with laughs.
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| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
Disciplined script -- bitingly funny.
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| 95 |
TNT RoughCut
M. Meghan McCarthy
One of the funniest films of the year... enough laugh-out-loud moments.
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| 91 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
One terrific comedy that doesn't let up for an instant... a total hoot.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
Inspired funny business that allows Martin to hilariously torpedo Hollywood's corrupt heart.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Smoothly directed and acted with glee... showing quick-witted comic spirit.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
A terrifically clever film; has a soft-boilded heart.
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| 90 |
Newsweek
Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy are both in peak form.
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| 88 |
Baltimore Sun
Milton Kent
As close to a perfect piece of satire as filmmakers have seen in quite some time.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
One of those comedies where everything works.
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| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
Offers a lot of laughs, a heartwarming core.
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| 80 |
Film.com
Ted Fry
A good-natured farce. It's also really, really funny.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Has it's share of downtime.
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| 76 |
Mr. Showbiz
Elanore Snow
Savy script... terrific performances... [yet] the movie's herky jerky pacing may leave you wanting.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
One of the reasons the move is so funny is that it is only a few degrees away from real life.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Bowfinger's terrific set-pieces... more than make up for the odd weak moment or thin performance.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
One of the best and funniest things that Martin, as writer and actor, has ever done.
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| 75 |
USA Today
Aside from the "Nutty Professor," this is the funniest Murphy comedy since the Reagan Administration.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Priceless enough to flush "Metro," "Dr. Dolittle" and "Holy Man" from memory.
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| 70 |
Variety
So lunatic that it creates as much puzzled disbelief as it does carefree delight.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
Amiable bundle of broad, easy laughs rather than bitingly fierce satire.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Just enough laughs to keep you watching.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Certainly pleasant, but it's also a bit safe.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Enjoyable but thin.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
Lacks emotional depth and intellectual sincerity.
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| 50 |
Dallas Observer
Hinson
With the exception of Murphy . . . the rest of the cast Oz has assembled acquit themselves only adequately or worse.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Never hits a note of high hilarity.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Bowfinger is mediocre . . . can be irksome, tedious, and hard to sit through.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Feels soft without being especially affectionate, and only sporadically funny.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Just enough laughs to keep you from feeling blatantly shortchanged.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
Mechanical plot that seems dull even before it laboriously clanks and screeches into motion.
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