The Out-Laws
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): July 7, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ObserverEmily ZemlerJul 6, 2023
The Out-Laws may not be for everyone, but two things are for sure: DeVine has the potential to be a major comedy star and Brosnan needs more roles where he doesn’t have to play serious. The rest is a welcome distraction for a Friday night at home. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJul 6, 2023
The Out-Laws, directed by Tyler Spindel, is a slight comedy, but it’s also raucous and kickily violent, with several laugh-in-spite-of-your-better-judgment bits. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineJake ColeJul 7, 2023
The Out-Laws shines when it spotlights the committed performances of its cast. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJul 7, 2023
DeVine gets away with a barn-door broadness that, nodding to the Jerry Lewis tendency, chimes with a film that works a surprising amount of explicit violence into its hectic slapstick. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJul 7, 2023
As much as I’ve enjoyed Adam DeVine’s work, he’s played variations on this same guy for nearly two decades now (he’s 39) and the man-child act is getting tiresome. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 7, 2023
Like so much of The Out-Laws, Brosnan and Barkin are both a little better than they need to be, and also a lot better than their material demands. Read full review
48
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerJul 7, 2023
The grotesquerie crowds out the movie’s fleeting cuteness. Read full review
42
ColliderTania HussainJul 7, 2023
The Out-Laws has a workable premise with a great star-studded cast led by a sincere DeVine and is funny with great potential outside its humor. But it never hits the mark and only works in pieces due to recycled ideas and formulaic tropes across clichéd writing. Read full review
40
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiJul 7, 2023
DeVine is entertaining enough, and the gag of watching Bronson and Barkin playing cool criminals can intrigue just about anyone. For all its flaws, The Out-Laws will win over those who flock to Happy Madison’s movies time after time, even if you'll promptly forget what you have watched. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerJul 7, 2023
There’s a good story at the heart of The Out-Laws about Parker coming to terms with her family’s long criminal history. But that’s more or less tossed aside in favor of all the nonstop gags, in a film that starts off like Meet the Parents and ends like a goofier The Expendables, some excessive violence included. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJul 7, 2023
No situation or character really gets a chance to breathe or grow here. Even the best casts can flail when the vibe is more antic than comic. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJul 7, 2023
Putting a bona-fide imbecile at the center of all this leads, inevitably, to far-too-predictable situations in which he will do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, sob uncontrollably, and generate no sympathy at all. Read full review
30
VarietyMurtada ElfadlJul 7, 2023
A by-the-books comedy, “The Out-Laws” misses its target. It doesn’t make its audience laugh, and it wastes its cast by putting them in the most obvious situations and giving them forgettable jokes. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 7, 2023
A bit of action mayhem at the midway mark plays. Brosnan and Barkin are as amusing as the script allows them to be and Devine works himself up to “maybe I don’t need to gouge my eyes/ears out every time he appears.” Read full review
20
The GuardianAA DowdJul 7, 2023
The wittiest thing about The Out-Laws is its title. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJul 7, 2023
Nearly every aspect of this feature from Tyler Spindel, formerly a second unit director for Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, is derivative and desperate and, at the same time, bizarrely pleased with itself. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJul 7, 2023
The Out-Laws is dead on arrival. Read full review
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