| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
I laughed all the way through it.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A good-natured movie.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Sometimes hilarious but mostly sitcom-esque geezer comedy.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Often livens up stale material with disarming loopiness and zest.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
Chaotic, sometimes funny.
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| 60 |
Film.com
No classic, but two hours well-spent nonetheless.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
Drowns in flat, clumsy and obvious direction.
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| 50 |
Film.com
A pleasant surprise that The Crew offers up the charms it does.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Amiable, sporadically amusing farce.
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| 50 |
Dallas Observer
For the large-type crowd, one that prefers to have its "dirty" clean and silly.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Dogged allegiance to blandness.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Tired comedy.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Much better than you'd expect, largely thanks to an extremely game cast.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
It's sunny and cheerful without coming off as too saccharine.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
The acting--especially Dreyfuss's ability to roll with the mood swings--is impressive if not redemptive.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Some of it is, I'll admit, pretty funny.
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| 40 |
Variety
The sentimentality is gently but firmly restrained in a potentially treacly subplot.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The Crew is all contrivance and we don't believe a minute of it.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
The "Golden Girls" with gats.
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| 36 |
Mr. Showbiz
Fuhgeddaboutit.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
So mild, so benign, its humiliation-to-vindication are so predictable and its old-folks jokes so feeble.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Seems it's never going to reach liftoff.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Fanaro's script never really hones in on the concept's potential.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
Each man's shtick swells into a frenzy of overacting.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
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.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
There are moments that suggest the comedy that could have been.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Nico Baumbach
The humor is even more geriatric than the cast.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
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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