The Brothers Grimsby
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 11, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
13
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMar 11, 2016
As a full movie experience this did not drop my jaw in a consistently enjoyable way. And the movie’s Trump joke is pretty ineffectual. Sad! Read full review
38
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianMar 10, 2016
The film doesn't do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as a scaffolding for a barrage of jokes. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittMar 10, 2016
Isn’t nearly as funny as it thinks it is spoofing spy tropes and buddy films and making a mockery of AIDS, politicians, movie stars and working-class Brits. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithMar 10, 2016
As a comedy, The Brothers Grimsby is weak and scattershot, but it’s useful as an unintended self-indictment of the chattering classes’ disgust and disdain for white working folk. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryMar 17, 2016
The Brothers Grimsby is fitfully, sometimes outrageously, funny. But Cohen’s shtick of showing the backwardness and stupidity of unprivileged characters is starting to feel lazy, not to mention classist itself. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 10, 2016
Mr. Cohen just seems off his game in “Grimsby,” and it may be that the movie’s high concept proved too constricting for someone who has done some of his best work (as in the “Borat” film) with a looser, more episodic format. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 16, 2016
83 minutes of excruciating, nauseating, boundary-pushing “comedy” that never for a second feels like it’s anything but visual evidence of the end of Sacha Baron Cohen’s comic leading-man career. Read full review
20
EmpireHelen O'HaraFeb 23, 2016
It may occasionally shock a laugh from you, but between those moments your face will be a rictus of horror. Read full review
12
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 17, 2016
This movie is so atrocious I kept waiting for Nick Cage to show up. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 16, 2016
This is Baron Cohen’s worst film, period. Read full review
0
HitfixDrew McWeenyMar 10, 2016
An entirely laughless affair and easily the low point of Cohen's career so far. Read full review
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