The Man from Toronto
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 24, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
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12
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
IGNTara Bennett Jun 23, 2022
Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson have solid goofball vs. grump chemistry in an entertaining action-comedy. Read full review
60
VarietyTomris LafflyJun 23, 2022
A throwback buddy action-comedy that offsets its run-of-the-mill sense of humor with a pair of appealing leads. Read full review
55
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganJun 24, 2022
While the Netflix Original film manages to sneak in a few genuinely funny moments, it’s not nearly as action-packed, suspenseful or humorous as it aims to be. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 21, 2022
The leads click well enough. But every moment Hart and Harrelson aren’t on the screen, the film dies. The real torture in this torture comedy becomes the too-long wait for it to end. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 27, 2022
The Man From Toronto, a Netflix action-comedy starring Woody Harrelson and Kevin Hart, is the kind of movie you forget almost the minute the end credits have rolled, two hours of moderate laughs rolled up in a tissue-thin plot that just barely qualifies as a distraction from the dreariness of life. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 27, 2022
As a 110-minute diversion, as a source of some laughs, as an opportunity for two funny guys to be funny — and to be funny with each other — what’s not to like? Just go in not expecting much. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 24, 2022
The Man from Toronto is derivative and forgettable; nothing about the venue in which it is seen will change that. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 24, 2022
This is the kind of movie that keeps the great Ellen Barkin literally in the shadows as a criminal mastermind, and relegates the wonderful Kaley Cuoco to an embarrassing supporting role as a man-hungry best girlfriend who might as well have stepped out of a cheesy 1970s rom-com. Is anybody even trying here? Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJun 24, 2022
It’s nasty and clumsy, tonally erratic, lacking in texture, and pretty stupid. Read full review
50
IndieWireChristian ZilkoJun 23, 2022
Despite a fun premise and a well-structured first act, “The Man from Toronto” tries to do too many things at once and devolves into a strange bouillabaisse of studio comedy tropes. Read full review
40
The New York TimesCalum MarshJun 30, 2022
In The Man From Toronto, directed by Patrick Hughes, the vague sense of location is typical of a broader lack of effort. Although Hart, as the broadly comic version of the classic Hitchcockian Wrong Man, has a certain goofball charm, his frantic coward routine gets old quickly, with no appreciable change as the action-flick danger continues to escalate. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredScott CampbellJun 24, 2022
Hart is capable of better, and Harrelson deserves better, so we can only hope the duo had fun during shooting, because there isn’t a great deal else to recommend outside of the pair’s best attempts at trying to wring some modicum of entertainment value from the scraps they’ve been given to feed on. Read full review
40
The GuardianAdrian HortonJun 23, 2022
Nothing is really offensive or incompetent, but it never rises to the level of funny or interesting, either. Read full review
33
The PlaylistNick AllenJun 28, 2022
The Man from Toronto could have been sharper with much more care all around, but a glaring problem comes from how Hughes isn’t a funny filmmaker. He might have the self-awareness to slap his name on a food processing plant that hosts the movie’s climactic kill, but his sense of making an action scene comedic is seriously lacking. Read full review
30
Screen RantNadir SamaraJun 24, 2022
Most of all, the movie reaffirms the fact that we still don’t have the iconic, big-budget Hart movie his career has been working towards. Read full review
30
SlashfilmBarry LevittJun 23, 2022
The Man From Toronto struggles throughout the entire film to establish a consistent tone. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonJun 24, 2022
Director Patrick Hughes’ latest is both 112 minutes, and a hodgepodge of so many other movies that it becomes the most obnoxious of cinematic collages. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonJun 23, 2022
For a character-driven “mistaken identity” comedy that lives or dies based on the humorous interactions between two A-list leads, its lousy script barely constitutes life support. Read full review
17
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 24, 2022
A stupendously dull action-comedy that is devoid of both thrills and humour. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesRobert DanielsJun 23, 2022
Director Patrick Hughes’ film should be avoided at all cost. Read full review
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