The Interview
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
18
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The Playlist Tess HofmannDec 12, 2014
Comedy is most effective when it’s taking a risk. Here, the directors took a big risk, and managed to finesse something shocking and novel out of the familiar Franco-Rogen dynamic without overplaying their hand. Read full review
91
HitfixDrew McWeenyDec 12, 2014
The Interview is laugh out loud funny all the way through, and once again proves that Rogen and Goldberg will do anything, no matter how dark, for a big laugh, and that character is just as important as punchlines in their work. Read full review
80
Time OutDavid EhrlichDec 16, 2014
Fashioning "The Great Dictator" and "Inglourious Basterds" into a cross joint and then lighting it from both ends, Goldberg and Rogen’s second directorial effort follows the hysterically violent misadventures of idiotic talk-show host Dave Skylark (James Franco, hamming it up) and his underachieving producer, Aaron (Rogen). Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsDec 27, 2014
Within the bloodshot-eye perspective of their other stoner comedies, it’s bluntly funny and ever-so-slightly sweet. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniDec 27, 2014
Crazy funny. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergDec 24, 2014
The North Korea scenes are often very funny, with many of the jokes coming at the expense of the fish-out-of-water visitors. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 24, 2014
The Interview sticks to the anything-for-a-laugh plan for nearly the entire journey, with far too many jokes about things going in and coming out of rear ends. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversDec 24, 2014
It's stupid. It's in bad taste. It impossible. I know all that. Look, Quentin Tarantino killed Hitler in "Inglourious Basterds" and the neo-Nazis stayed quiet. It's a farce, people. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonDec 23, 2014
No matter what you think of dumb comedies, The Interview, thanks allegedly to Kim, has gone from disposable to indispensible cinema. It’s a must-see movie in the context of what has happened, and will spark a discussion of, in comedy, how far is too far? Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinDec 27, 2014
If Amy Pascal loses her job over this, it will be an outrage. The only thing about which we disagree is The Interview. She hated it; I think it’s a blast. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 25, 2014
Randall Park’s interpretation of Kim is dark, and darkly funny, a delusional turn with wincing, believable bits of psychoanalysis. Read full review
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