Hess doesn't take it all far enough (the PG rating seems unusually restrictive), especially with the audacity of gags and the frequency of jokes.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 21, 2020

Never quite as funny as it threatens to be, but Black's misplaced enthusiasm in the fight-night sequences remains a grotesquely pleasing joy to behold throughout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2020

It's not something wonderful that will enter the annals of history. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 14, 2020

A sweet, offbeat movie about caring for others.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Makes you stare first in bemusement, then in boredom, finally in slight nausea

| Aug 30, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Hess has the most languid sense of comic timing since Bill Murray at his peak.

| Original Score: B | Aug 25, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Nacho Libre merely provides some momentary pleasant diversions.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Any production featuring Jack Black in spandex and showing off his belly full of stretch marks should never have made it off the drawing board in the first place.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 9, 2007

Director Jared Hess' weapon of choice is his innocence.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

Physical violence, silliness and gross-out moments (suspect gooey substances flow frequently) abound, but Nacho Libre is not without its occasional charms.

| Mar 1, 2007

Gives you more reason than ever to love Black's death scene in 1997's The Jackal.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jan 1, 2007

A film with a steady stream of laughter enclosed is a great cure for those with the "World Cup" blues.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2006

There's a fine line between funny and stupid, and director Jared Hess can't find it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 9, 2006

This is all about Jack Black being Jack Black, funny and well-conceived wrestling action, and catch-you-off-guard comedy. Nacho has all of those things in a headlock.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2006

Puts another monkey on Jack Black's back, but this time it isn't several stories tall, it doesn't have a thing for blondes and it doesn't famously destroy New York real estate. In this case, it's the script.

| Original Score: C | Sep 9, 2006

It's more outrageous than hilarious, yet Nacho Libre has the same kind of sweet poignancy its filmmaker Jared Hess brought to his 2004 cult hit Napoleon Dynamite.

| Sep 8, 2006

Nacho typical comedy

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 21, 2006