While the character-driven script has a weakness for toilet humor (Mel Brooks would be proud), its inhabitants are given some oddball quirks and tics that keep things percolating when the plot development runs a little thin.

| Apr 26, 2019

I knew the picture was in trouble when its first gag involved an old lady spewing obscenities.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 16, 2017

Friday has energy, and sass, and the nerve to suggest that the line between tragedy and comedy may be in the bloodshot eye of the beholder.

| Original Score: B | Jul 6, 2010

A crudely made, sometimes funny bit of porchfront humor from the 'hood.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2008

Gray's direction is painfully flat, and curiously -- especially for a popular music video director like Gray -- lacking any interesting visual style.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 6, 2003

This is a ruder, cruder version of the hip-hop movie House Party, and it offers a fascinating glimpse at the way street life enters pop culture.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Dirty, offensive, infantile and may launch a few sanctimonious opinion columns. And I mean that in the nicest way.

| Jan 1, 2000

Cube is amusing, though he's really playing straight man to Tucker's frenetic and energized Smokey.

| Jan 1, 2000

Writer and director are both only 25 years old -- and provide another example of why it's best to beware of young men with movie cameras.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000