As a satire, Grosse Pointe Blank doesn't completely add up-the parts are greater than the whole-but it's very much alive and kicking.

| Feb 28, 2018

High school reunions should only be this satisfying — and hitmen this open-minded about the value of psychotherapy.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2011

Despite some early indications from the two Cusacks and Arkin that it's going to be funny, it winds up an unholy mess that becomes steadily more incoherent -- morally, dramatically, and conceptually.

| Nov 6, 2009

Cusack is charming and assured in the film.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2008

For what is essentially a one-joke movie, this has an awful lot going for it.

| Jun 24, 2006

A soggy, all-over-the- place mess.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2002

An entertaining oddity, an amiably black comedy whose bared teeth double as an engaging smile: It takes a satiric bite and leaves you laughing through the pain. For that, we can thank the writers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

A bright burst of action and comedy with a cast that makes for rousing good company.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 11, 2001

Clever enough to make jokes about Greco-Roman wrestling and make them funny, Grosse Pointe Blank's greatest success is the way it maintains its comic attitude.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 14, 2001

What makes us laugh at this dark comedy is the insolence its creators hold for the very bones of their narrative.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Hugely recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

With a breezy unpredictability that belies a darker underside, Grosse Pointe Blank, directed by George Armitage, is the kind of quirky, character-driven comedy they don't make much anymore.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Cusack's talents are delicate and appealing, but not propulsive enough to lead the movie to triumph.

| Jan 1, 2000

Directed jauntily by George Armitage, it has the jokey, winsome tone of his earlier Miami Blues and enough wild-card energy to keep it bright and surprising.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a sad day when an actor who's totally, beautifully in touch with his dark side finds himself stuck in a movie that's scared of its own shadow.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A wacky joyride.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Despite these qualities, the movie for me is a near-miss. One of the problems is the conclusion, in which things are resolved with an elaborate action sequence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: A- | Apr 11, 1997