A profoundly irritating, cacophonous mess.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 18, 2020

Things quickly escalate into chaos and stay there, but they do so in ways that are not quite funny enough to make you forget the implausibilities or the way serious stuff is played for bad jokes.

| Apr 13, 2020

Its uneven start isn't enough to make it a total miss.

| Apr 6, 2020

It's pungently offensive and bracingly violent, but this Detroit-set action comedy is also blessed with a sharp script by Shane Mack and a weirdly likeable central pair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2020

Coffee & Kareem is messy, but it's an interesting sort of gross chaos.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2020

Coffee & Kareem is DOA.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 4, 2020

One's a cop who can't shoot straight! One's a kid with a nose for trouble! Together... they lack the wit, thrills and rapport to deliver fun genre times.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2020

There just isn't much of a movie here, or even much of an homage movie when you compare it to its clear influences like 48 Hours and Lethal Weapon.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 3, 2020

There's a better movie buried underneath the many corpses in the crude and confused Netflix comedy Coffee & Kareem, one of their algorithmically assembled weekend options patchworked together from a stack of search terms.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2020

Everything goes stupefyingly wrong in this crime against comedy that features Ed Helms and Taraji P. Henson straining so hard for laughs that never come that you think director Michael Dowse was holding a gun to their heads.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Apr 3, 2020

The biggest problem with "Coffee & Kareem" is no one is likable, least of all Gardenhigh's character, whose tough-talking, off-putting exterior isn't masking any inner insecurities. The kid's just a jerk.

| Original Score: D | Apr 3, 2020

"Coffee & Kareem" has a sweet premise at its core, with the two polar opposites tied together on a crazy quest, but its gets bogged down in its mission to shock and appall.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 3, 2020

Do the people who made Coffee & Kareem think that it's a refreshing throwback? How can they not know that these kinds of movies happen all the time, and sometimes even make sense?

| Original Score: C- | Apr 3, 2020

"Coffee and Kareem" is stuck in decaf mode.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 3, 2020

Although its lame-pun title is a tip-off, it still won't prepare you for the 88 irretrievable minutes of your life that is the barrel-bottom action-comedy "Coffee & Kareem."

| Apr 3, 2020

There's politically incorrect, and then there's just plain wrong.

| Apr 3, 2020

Making a film that feels two days long is not the same thing as making 48 Hrs.

| Apr 3, 2020

A funny action comedy that comes into your house in a good mood and gets the reaction it's supposed to get: laughs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2020

So padded with bad jokes (many of which are homophobic), aimlessly vulgar language and hackneyed plot points that it makes its 88 minutes congeal beyond a recognizable measure of time.

| Apr 2, 2020