| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Next Day Air is sort of bracing, though it isn't very good: Its total lack of dramatic and comic bearings, to say nothing of a point, keeps you wondering about the next fatality, in a half-interested way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2009

Consistently unremarkable from its dullsville title on down.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | May 14, 2009

There are no cops, not much farcical energy, and none of the satiric edge it would take to pull off the film's grim denouement.

| May 13, 2009

Next Day Air is dumb. Completely, totally and almost irredeemably dumb.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 8, 2009

He may be a first-time feature director, but music video master Benny Boom clearly knows how to pull a midlevel movie together. That's harder than it sounds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2009

Far from the worst of Taran tino knockoffs, Next Day Air takes the standard formula of dimwits chasing bags of drugs to the 'hood.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 8, 2009

An ungainly hybrid of stoner comedy and gangsta drama.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 8, 2009

From the violent opening to the nihilistic ending, Next Day Air is so cynical that its few laughs are a release of tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 8, 2009

Screenwriter Blair Cobbs delivers some good lines, but the inconsistent tone and overacting by some of the lesser actors sabotage his efforts.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 8, 2009

First-time feature director Benny Boom and writer Blair Cobbs get a lot of help from their cast, and the banter is often akin to a thug Three Stooges routine. But blood and predictability sour things in the end.

| Original Score: C | May 8, 2009

Stripped of f-bombs and b-words, Blair Cobb's screenplay could make a fortune- cookie threat. "You will see a bad movie today."

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 8, 2009

In the end, it's a fitfully amusing, sloppy comedy that doesn't work very hard for your 10 bucks.

| May 8, 2009

An incessantly talky, inert crime film that's like a hip-hop poseur, all swagger and mouth but with no real taste for the grittiness of thug life.

| Original Score: .5/4 | May 8, 2009

With a script that snaps and characters that pop, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2009

| Original Score: D | May 8, 2009

Boom's comedy is a trap: We like these dudes, and know that while crime does pay, it always takes a deadly cut.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 7, 2009

Any shreds of comedy are literally blown away in a violent climax that sees most of the cast shooting at each other, complete with graphic blood spurts.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2009

Next Day Air can't decide whether it's a broad stoner comedy or a gritty Tarantino-esque action flick. The humor is there, but violence brings the laughter to an abrupt halt.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 7, 2009

To add insult to injury, the mindless comedy turns into a mindless shoot 'em up. Mark this package delivery refused.

| Original Score: F | May 7, 2009