White Men Can't Jump

Name: White Men Can't Jump
Genre: Drama, Sport, Comedy
Released: May 19, 2023
Rating: 40
Cast: Aiden Shute, Andrew Schulz, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jack Harlow, Lance Reddick

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Hulu | Release Date (Streaming): May 19, 2023 | R

Starring: Aiden Shute, Andrew Schulz, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jack Harlow, Lance Reddick, Laura Harrier, LeChristopher Williams, Myles Bullock, Phillip-Charlie Daniell, Sinqua Walls, Tamera Kissen, Teyana Taylor, Vince Staples, Zak Steiner

Summary: Kamal (Sinqua Walls) is a once a promising player who derailed his future in the sport. Jeremy (Jack Harlow) is former star of the game whose injuries stalled his own career. Juggling tenuous relationships, financial pressures and serious internal struggles, the two ballers—opposites who are seemingly miles apart—find they might have moreKamal (Sinqua Walls) is a once a promising player who derailed his future in the sport. Jeremy (Jack Harlow) is former star of the game whose injuries stalled his own career. Juggling tenuous relationships, financial pressures and serious internal struggles, the two ballers—opposites who are seemingly miles apart—find they might have more in common than they imagined possible. A modern retelling of the 1992 film.… Expand

Director: Calmatic

Genre(s): Drama, Sport, Comedy

Rating: R

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Richard Roeper

May 18, 2023

White Men Can’t Jump 2023 is the second remake for director Calmatic this year, following the disastrous “House Party” from last January, and while it’s not as clumsy or weirdly tone-deaf as that bomb, the screenplay by Kenya Barris (“black-ish”) and Doug Hall misses a couple of major opportunities, including the decision to have the most dramatic development of the entire movie take place offscreen. Read full review

Sandeep Sandhu

May 19, 2023

If you like the 1992 classic you might enjoy this update, but if you don't have the time to kill, it's probably worth sticking to the original. Read full review

Brian Lowry

May 19, 2023

At its best this White Men Can’t Jump conveys the fragility of hoop dreams, while tackling what former players do with their lives once the promise of signing bonuses and sponsorship deals appears to have fizzled. (NBA star Blake Griffin, incidentally, is among the producers, joining several of his contemporaries in establishing a Hollywood toehold while still suiting up.)... On that level, at least, the movie works reasonably well. It’s the hitches in the rest of its game that prevent it, even as a streaming proposition, from being anything close to a slam dunk. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

May 18, 2023

Director Calmatic sanitizes every aspect of his source material until the entire thing looks, sounds and feels like a Disney sitcom. Thus, it’s no surprise when things get self-help maudlin. Read full review

Ferdosa Abdi

May 21, 2023

The drama feels undercooked, and the characters barely escape one-dimensionality. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 17, 2023

Take away the point-by-point comparison, even accepting the jump shots and backdoor cuts on the court, this remake still never gets off the ground. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

May 18, 2023

The problem just keeps coming back to Harlow. Not only is he just out of his depth in hitting the necessary comedic notes, but the hollowness of his performance also becomes impossible to overlook when his character goes through a rough patch and must find redemption. Read full review

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royalguy07

May 19, 2023

Lacks all of the charm of the original, Harlow isn't terrible at acting but his character is one the more insufferable in a long time.

Also on a side note, it's bad enough we lost Lance Reddick in real life but now I have had to watch him die in back to back movie roles.