Night School has all the trappings of the usual Kevin Hart movie, but his brand of over-the-top, self-deprecating humor is in top form.

| Jan 26, 2019

Such sexual tone-deafness is especially infuriating because the film is almost enlightened in other areas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2018

The film is a vehicle for Haddish, whose timing and delivery make the jokes jump off the page.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2018

Unfocused and uninspired, Night School has its moments but is held back by a script that required more study.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2018

Instead of leaning into the very funny people populating it, the movie gets distracted with a laborious setup... and then a heist... and a prom... all just so it can keep skipping class.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2018

There are just enough laughs to make "Night School" worth it, if you're in the mood. Even when it's not hilarious, there's a comic spirit that's active and never flags, from scene to scene.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2018

It has more of a social conscience than most of [Kevin Hart's] other vehicles but keeps the laughs coming too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2018

A hodgepodge of ideas, subplots, concepts, jokes and melodramatic contrivances that never coalesce into a coherent whole.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 28, 2018

There's a lot of sophomoric silliness Night School feels obligated to perform. But there's a heap of good intentions behind it, and enough big laughs to make us want to forgive it in the end.

| Sep 28, 2018

If forced to choose, skip Night School -- a remedial-level comedy with Kevin Hart [and Tiffany Haddish].

| Sep 28, 2018

It's to the credit of Lee and his collaborators that Night School pitches a comedic tent big enough to contain something silly for everyone.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2018

Haddish is given little to work with - a fact that is almost criminal considering how her rising star power over the past year is almost entirely indebted to her charisma and disarming slapstick style.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2018

Hart and Haddish are both wildly gifted comedians, but "Night School" doesn't allow them to riff.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 28, 2018

The bar is low in the arena of time-killing Kevin Hart vehicles, but if anyone was capable of walking under it, let alone limboing, it's Hart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2018

The premise is in the title and the best jokes are all in the trailer.

| Original Score: C | Sep 28, 2018

For all her improvisational skill and that of her top-billed costar, the much-vaunted Hart-and-Haddish pairing never pays dividends. It feels more like Half-and-Half.

| Sep 27, 2018

Night School's sextet of writers, Hart being one of them, have a lot of individual jokes they want to tell. But nothing really adds up to a whole story and there's nothing they want to say.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2018

Night School is a straightforward concept that relies too much on the charisma of its performers to carry a weak script. It didn't do its homework.

| Sep 27, 2018

This would be so much better if it was actually funny.

| Sep 27, 2018

On occasion this Kevin Hart vehicle dabbles in real-world situations, but for the most part it's a feature-length sitcom that doesn't take full advantage of the wonderfully talented cast and settles for being ... OK.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2018