Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: July 3, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
9
Negative:
3
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91
The PlaylistDrew TaylorJul 4, 2013
A welcome change of pace and a truly hilarious, heartfelt experience. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJul 4, 2013
Unfortunately, Hart seems to have taken the whole ''leave the audience wanting more'' maxim a little too much to heart. The film clocks in at a hair over an hour. That might be enough for an HBO special, but it feels a little thin for a feature film. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKyle RyanJul 3, 2013
Let Me Explain finds Hart at the peak of his powers, so the film’s long coronation feels justified, if gaudy. Strip away the preamble and just give him a mic, and he’d earn it all the same. Read full review
63
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeJul 3, 2013
It’s a brief movie, and perhaps all that preamble is meant to justify the ticket price. The best advice is to walk in about 25 minutes after the lights go down. You’ll still get all the laughs, and you won’t have to hear about Hart’s YouTube hits. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandJul 3, 2013
If you were to judge Let Me Explain purely on its performance portion, filmed at Madison Square Garden during Hart's 2012 tour, the film would merit a full extra star. But at 75 minutes, it feels too skimpy to rave over. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerryJul 2, 2013
It’s all in the name of comedy, and it mostly works, with a couple of exceptions, including an especially mean-spirited and somewhat violent tirade against a fan he met in an airport. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 4, 2013
Diverting but not enough to expand Kevin Hart's fan base much. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJul 3, 2013
Some of Hart’s set — including jokes about his security team and an inspired recounting of a disastrous trip to a dude ranch — is hilarious. And his profane outrage is often funny enough to sell the weaker writing. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJul 2, 2013
Fans will love it; their main complaint may be that it ends too soon. Amateur psychologists in the audience, meanwhile, may be asking why such a successful guy seems so defensive. Read full review
50
The DissolveGenevieve KoskiJul 10, 2013
The Kevin Hart brand is clearly doing well, but Let Me Explain doesn’t seem interested in providing anything more than a surface-level presentation of the product. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe LeydonJul 8, 2013
Once you get past an incredibly self-indulgent intro — an uncomfortably long mash-up of comedy sketch and road-trip-with-entourage doc that seems simultaneously apologetic and arrogant — you can enjoy approximately an hour of boisterously freewheeling and unabashedly raunchy funny stuff in Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchKevin C. JohnsonJul 3, 2013
The film is flat and lazy, and the audio mix is so low it sounds as if the audience is barely laughing. His cable comedy specials have better production values. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigJul 3, 2013
Intermittently funny. But the movie's first 20 minutes is devoted to tediously showing how his career has taken off around the world. That might be fine if this were a documentary, or if it were done more artfully, and with humor — since we go into the movie expecting a 75-minute laugh-fest. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJul 2, 2013
Few comedians talk so much to get a laugh, and sometimes the strain shows... And the directors don’t do him any favors by the annoyingly frequent close-ups of audience members in convulsions of laughter. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJul 3, 2013
The hour of mike time isn't as strong as such previous dispatches as "Seriously…Funny." Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonJul 4, 2013
Wait for this to show up where it belongs — on cable. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJul 2, 2013
In Let Me Explain, you’re never NOT aware that you’re watching a gifted, rubber-faced/rubber voiced performer (his “Laugh at My Pain” concert film was a surprising hit in 2011) work too hard to make inferior material go over. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJul 10, 2013
All together, it is a wearying display of defensiveness from a man who – by any barometer, not just his own – is wildly successful. Read full review
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