Despite corralling Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Thandie Newton and David Oyelowo into its incredible cast, Gringo is, at best, an inept attempt at a dark comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2018

Life may be full of coincidences, but screenplays cannot be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2018

A movie created by someone who has ever actually been to Mexico and thought to pay attention to more than kidnapping scares and cartel nightmares.

| May 18, 2018

It's hard to begrudge them the fun they're having on the screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2018

Though all of Gringo's elements don't ultimately come together seamlessly enough for this to be a "great" movie, not all movies have to be great. Some of them just have to be a fun, funny, escapist two hours. This cast delivers.

| Mar 15, 2018

Oyelowo steals this movie right from under everyone else's collective nose. He's a hoot in an act of grand larceny that makes the uneven Gringo worthwhile.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2018

So casually incoherent, so erratically paced and unfocused that you rather suspect that medical marijuana featured as heavily in the writing process as it does in the plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2018

A few laughs here and there but largely falls flat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2018

So much of the movie works like a dream, and I absolutely adored just how obnoxiously convoluted and ferociously aberrant the climactic turn of events ended up proving to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2018

Director Nash Edgerton and screenwriters Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone do a fine job of juggling the multiple story lines, moving things along at an entertaining clip.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2018

It can't decide whether it wants to be magnificently toxic or merely mediocre.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2018

'Pleasant surprise' might be a misnomer for Gringo.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2018

Dust off those spec scripts, all you as-yet-unsuccessful scribes - Hollywood's apparently paying anyone these days.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 9, 2018

Movies like this need to be airtight, but "Gringo" is a flimsy piece of pulp fiction.

| Original Score: C | Mar 9, 2018

A pitch-black, often very funny slice of pulp fiction with a number of stand-out performances, notably the ferocious Theron.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2018

The stage is set for a good, nasty, slam-bang farce, and "Gringo" makes it about two-thirds of the way there.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2018

The circuitous narrative of Nash Edgerton's Gringo is such that it never allows for a character or storyline to develop in a particularly efficient way, as every few minutes an abrupt twist or turn sets things off in a new and unexpected direction.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 9, 2018

David Oyelowo does sterling work... in a film that might easily have been labelled sub-Tarantino trash were it not for the winning efforts of the Selma star.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2018

If you like your crime stories to be nicely nasty, this one does the trick.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 9, 2018

Gringo sags and slips in its middle, falling so flat that even its fast-paced and neatly tied up final 20 minutes can't get the energy back up.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 8, 2018