Here is a film that continually squanders its cast and your time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2017

Screenwriters Van Robichaux, Evan Susser, and Max Greenfield raise the satirical ante with a nicely jaundiced view of the school, which is underfunded, riven by office politics, and teetering on the brink of anarchy.

| Mar 9, 2017

With its bullying mob mentality and inexplicable character motivation, this is film-making for people who watch YouTube clips of happy-slapping for kicks.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 5, 2017

All the amusement value of a smack in the mouth.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 3, 2017

It's notable only for the deeply shabby way it treats Mad Men's Christina Hendricks and for its extremely odd penchant for child-abuse jokes.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 2, 2017

This fitful timewaster doubles rowdily down on all its flimsy-to-questionable ideas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2017

Fist Fight is a crude and foul-mouthed comedy whose most notable feature is its utter pessimism about the American high school system.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2017

By one way of looking at it, Fist Fight might be seen as a timely nightmare -- not about bullying but being downsized. For that reason alone, it's not a complete waste of time. Also it features a rampaging horse on meth.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2017

It doesn't help that neither leading man is much of a comic force in his own right.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 23, 2017

Day's the runt, Cube is the bully, and for a punishing 91 minutes of rank idiocy we wait in vain for something funny to happen.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 17, 2017

Fist Fight isn't there to make you think, but to make you laugh, and it mostly does.

| Feb 17, 2017

A consistently intelligent (or at least bright), coherently constructed comedy that is on occasion a rather pointed critique of the American education system in the early 21st century.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2017

The movie is filled with funny people. Unfortunately, it is bereft of funny ideas.

| Original Score: C | Feb 17, 2017

Represents a missed opportunity, given the talents of this charismatic and game cast.

| Feb 17, 2017

The first rule of Fist Fight should be that we don't talk about Fist Fight.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 17, 2017

"Fist Fight" is so terminally unpleasant that it feels like the audience is the one catching a beating. In this fight, there are only losers.

| Original Score: F | Feb 17, 2017

Vulgar, brutal, surreal and extremely funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2017

So ugly, so mean-spirited, so bereft of laughs, I found myself rooting for a technical malfunction if only to catch a momentary breather.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 16, 2017

Sometimes silly comedies actually have something to say. Fist Fight is not one of them.

| Feb 16, 2017

It takes place in a world that is intended to be funny but is repellent in every way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 16, 2017