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

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

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

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

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

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

A smart, funny and hip adventure film in a summer of car wrecks and explosions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2013

Every time the film makes you chuckle, you may also feel it's zapped you with a neuralizer.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 6, 2010

A wild knuckleball of a movie that keeps dancing in and out of the strike zone.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2008

The smartest, funniest, and best-looking sci-fi comedy since the movies learned to morph.

| Jun 5, 2007

It's just the best yuk of the week.

| Apr 17, 2007

It's so much fun, in fact, that it's almost over before you realise that you've been watching a great idea for a movie in desperate search of a plot.

| Feb 9, 2006

As ragged as the humor is, there still are more hits than misses.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 6, 2002

Smarter, leaner, funnier, and more human than most entries in the genre, relying less on spectacle than on the chemistry of the two leads and the wit of the script for its appeal.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2002

At times, it may succeed at manipulating you, but you won't like it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2002

The result is a rich picture with a winning personality, as modest in theme as it is in style.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Director Barry Sonnenfeld loads the bases with action, fantasy and laughs, and hits a grand slam.

| May 11, 2001

Though its charm is in its attitude and premise (and Danny Elfman's rousing score), Men in Black does have a serviceable plot that kicks in when a rusty flying saucer crash-lands in a rural area.

| Feb 14, 2001

Independence Day for smart people.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000