| 100 |
Boston Globe
Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Their comedy gives audiences that have never seen anything like it a hilarious window on a new world.
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| 90 |
Chicago Reader
Lee performs magic. He's preserved and expanded the experience of an adrenaline-pumping, uproarious night of racism-, classism-, and sexism-subverting humor.
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| 90 |
Salon.com
Turns a hysterical night of African-American humor into the hottest little picture of the summer.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
A dynamite concert film.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
A tornado of laughs based on the black experience as lived by these four insightful jokers, instead of as filtered through the Hollywood formula.
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| 88 |
New York Daily News
It's not so much good material as divinely inspired delivery.
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| 88 |
USA Today
Both the material and the way it's delivered by the movie's comic quartet are so funny.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
A fresh, intimate, gloriously unpolished performance film that measures up to the classics of the genre.
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| 80 |
Film.com
It's a very funny film, one of the most enjoyable of the summer.
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| 80 |
Variety
Consistently hilarious.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Both funny and furious -- on why black people are different from white people.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
A decidedly grown-up affair.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
The most articulate and entertaining commentary on racial differences to have come down the pike in quite a while.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Can make a person sick in two ways at once -- through its lowdown raunch and through the spasms of laughter that use stomach muscles one might not have known existed.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Crassly funny passages.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Side-splitting concert film.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Exuberant, often hilarious.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
These guys are funny.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Doesn't have the theatrical subtext or, let it be said, the genius of Richard Pryor.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
This picture won't attract white audiences. I doubt that blacks would flock to a Jerry Seinfeld concert film. But we'd all get along better if we realized we had the right to laugh at each other's foibles
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
Racy, obscene, spirited and infectious.
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| 70 |
Film.com
A two-hour slice --of comedy pie.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Gary Dauphin
Simultaneously hilarious and reprehensible.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
The routines are charged, even between jokes, with anticipatory hilarity.
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| 65 |
Mr. Showbiz
Gets to the funny bone, but it could've cut deeper.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Unashamedly vulgar and exuberantly politically incorrect.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
One funny movie - for at least half the time.
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| 55 |
TNT RoughCut
Solidly entertaining if not remarkably innovative.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Sometimes they're truly hilarious; sometimes they're lazy enough to milk laughs from scattershot vulgarity.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
The relentlessly self-congratulatory tone is oppressive.
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