Galifianakis' cluelessness can tickle, but he's having a progressively difficult time making things feel fresh.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2016

It's just smart people acting like dumb people in a dumb movie.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Oct 5, 2016

A tooth extraction without painkillers would have been far more enjoyable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 1, 2016

Hess dives deeply into the ass crack of suburban North Carolina, finding lowbrow caricature courtesy his two wonderfully shameless lead actors, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2016

The movie has been on ice awaiting release for over a year, owing to the bankruptcy of its studio. But some of the jokes were moldy long before that happened. Masterminds owes us our two hours back.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 30, 2016

While the movie itself failed to steal my heart it managed to abscond with just enough of my affection I'd be tempted to give it a second look at some point in the not so distant future.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2016

What Masterminds lacks in sharp one-liners it more than makes up for in ridiculous slapstick.

| Original Score: B | Sep 30, 2016

The subtext is all about class dispossession, but a movie in which a character is stupid enough to propose a big-time bank robbery so that his gang can make it into the news ("the big show") is pushing it.

| Sep 30, 2016

If smart dumb comedies hold a place in your heart, you'll like Masterminds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2016

Masterminds often bears the choppy scars of postproduction tinkering, but it remains entertaining for those who like their deadpan with a healthy side of slapstick.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2016

Hess has traded the deadpan shtick of his debut for the kind of insult-and-injury farce that wouldn't be out of place in a Kevin James production.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 30, 2016

Asides, glances, pauses, silences, double takes, and false starts-Hess catches an extraordinary range of wondrous humanity within the extravagant theatrics of his wildly self-presenting actors.

| Sep 30, 2016

Masterminds is filled with the sort of idiotic bathroom humor that has become standard in big-screen comedies, but it is enlivened by the surreal slapstick touches that made Napoleon Dynamite so good.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2016

Jared Hess's film turns out to be a succession of failed jokes punctuated by a few cathartic laughs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2016

Hess and his three scripters rely more on the improv skills of an impressive cast than on anything resembling jokes or a credible story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2016

There's a certain subset of the population that may find Zach Galifianakis in a ridiculous hairdo the height of comedy. If you are in that segment, welcome.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2016

I cracked up here and there watching this broad heist comedy, but it wasn't laughter I felt great about.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2016

The full-on goofiness is not reliably buoyant; this is an intermittently enjoyable but often choppy comic ride.

| Sep 29, 2016

Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig's absurd lead turns help carry this uneven but amusing bank-robbery comedy.

| Sep 29, 2016

Weird-stupid more than good-stupid ...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2016