Hess blends local color with celestial inspiration to create a forthright and original religious vision.

| Aug 23, 2021

I may be one of the few that loved this movie, but it was a blast, and I don't have any fear saying that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2012

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Rockwell is the film's only consistently amusing presence.

| Original Score: C | Jul 16, 2010

Classic underdog vs smug establishment stuff, you might think. But it's all played out in puke-slathered anti-comedy sketches better suited to no-budget YouTube videos than a multimillion-dollar film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 6, 2010

This deliberately amateurish, self-indulgent effort manages to be odd while rarely remembering to be funny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 3, 2010

The presence of Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement is the main point of interest in this so-so comedy...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2010

Runs out of ideas after 20 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2010

Gentlemen Broncos is a movie that sets out to be so bad it's good, like an Edward D. Wood movie. But it ends up so slow-paced, unfunny and supercilious that it's just mind-numbingly terrible.

| Apr 30, 2010

Maybe it's time for Hess to go back to Napoleon Dynamite for a sequel. Although, on second thoughts, perhaps he should leave well alone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2010

Veers from hilarious to unwatchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2010

It's all an excuse for Hess to populate his small-town America with a series of off-the-scale oddballs and gross-out humour. The whole premise would be far better if it didn't seem quite so self-indulgent.

| Apr 30, 2010

The film-within-a-film starring Sam Rockwell tanks quite badly, but Hess's affection for fantasy kitsch shines through brightly enough to generate real feeling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2010

This latest from writer-director Jared Hess is another unsavoury stew of kitsch juvenilia that furthers the rot that set in between his first two films...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 29, 2010

I feel it is my duty to warn fans of Jared Hess's teen comedy Napoleon Dynamite that they will find nothing to please them here.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 29, 2010

Hess once again trains his camera on misfit adolescents, mocking the obsessions of sci-fi geeks with genuine affection and gentle humour that leads to an unsurprisingly heart-warming pay-off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2010

Slight and occasionally clunking, it wins through by its sheer good nature and some particularly strong playing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2010

A cult classic in the making, thanks to some wonderful dialogue and a pair of terrific comic performances from Jemaine Clement and Sam Rockwell.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2010

It's difficult to pick up on a majority of the nightmarish qualities that were promised in the initial wave of response.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 15, 2010

You can't root for [the characters] while laughing at the work they hold dear -- it just doesn't go both ways.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 12, 2010