This is a hilarious, deadpan sci-comedy comedy about special G-men who keep resident aliens from outer space in line.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 10, 2023

It’s difficult to be enthusiastic about a product that ends with a dated Dennis Rodman joke and seems to exist only to reinforce Smith’s former status as an icon.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 20, 2022

A sharp, sci-fi crowdpleaser.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2022

'Men in Black' is just damn fun. The cast is perfect, Rick Bakers alien effects are chefs kiss, and the movie's runtime makes sure the film doesnt overstay its welcome.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 8, 2022

Choosing to go the route of puppets and primarily practical effects, the film's look remains striking, even after years of advancing computer graphics.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 14, 2020

The gremlins and the gadgets are the real stars of this show.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2020

A terrifically entertaining combination of alien conspiracy fears played for laughs and French Connection-meets-Ghostbusters thrills... Men in Black is so much fun one is actually mildly disappointed when it ends after an economically short 98 minutes.

| Jul 2, 2019

In addition to being uniquely and necessarily a creature of the second half of the 1990s, quite possibly the best popcorn movie of that half-decade.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2019

Men in Black is the rare breed of a sci-fi blockbuster that film audiences don't really get the opportunity to see anymore in theaters.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 11, 2019

Men in Black is the wryest, sharpest, most entertaining special effects film in recent memory, a simultaneous participant and mocking parody of the more-bang-for-your-buck behemoth genre.

| Aug 12, 2014

[Director Barry Sonnenfeld] establishes the premise in the wildly entertaining first 45 minutes and then glides along for the rest of the film on the strength of a poker-faced comic sensibility.

| Aug 12, 2014

What makes this wildly imaginative setup so much fun is the contrast between the deadpan gruffness of Jones and Torn, and the spectacularly strange environment in which they work.

| Aug 12, 2014

Men In Black deserves credit for supplementing its special effects with a breezy script and genuinely charismatic performances by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

| Aug 12, 2014

Men in Black, running a breezy 98 minutes, is a showpiece of laconic economy. It's quick, eccentric and deadly funny and for many young movie-goers it's likely to be a close encounter they'll want to see a second and third time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2014

A lean, punchy, fast paced, and extremely endearing sci-fi action comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2014

Its attitude is poised somewhere between the deadpan ghoulishness of the Coen brothers and a Letterman-like sense of the absurdity of life in New York's rich ethnic stew.

| Aug 2, 2013

Men in Black is moderately amusing, well-constructed and mercifully short, but it fails to deliver on the zaniness of its first half.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Great special effects, inventive alien designs and Smith and Jones's hip, hilarious double act make director Barry Sonnenfeld's Lethal Weapon-style buddy picture a fast-paced pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

The plot, trifling as it is, doesn't much matter. What makes the movie such a hoot are the clever gags, imaginative special effects, and the snappy byplay between the well-matched Jones and Smith.

| Jul 31, 2013

There's a playfulness, here, that you don't often find in a special-effect flick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2013