73
Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
31(84%)
mixed
5(14%)
negative
1(3%)
Showing 37 Critic Reviews
100
Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.
90
Lee performs magic. He's preserved and expanded the experience of an adrenaline-pumping, uproarious night of racism-, classism-, and sexism-subverting humor.
90
Their comedy gives audiences that have never seen anything like it a hilarious window on a new world.
90
Turns a hysterical night of African-American humor into the hottest little picture of the summer.
90
A dynamite concert film.
90
A tornado of laughs based on the black experience as lived by these four insightful jokers, instead of as filtered through the Hollywood formula.
88
Both the material and the way it's delivered by the movie's comic quartet are so funny.
88
It's not so much good material as divinely inspired delivery.
80
A fresh, intimate, gloriously unpolished performance film that measures up to the classics of the genre.
80
It's a very funny film, one of the most enjoyable of the summer.
