Riff Raff Reviews
It had me at Jennifer Coolidge.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 16, 2025
I have mixed feelings about this film It tried to cram too much into it's runtime with too many characters and didn't give everyone their full showing.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 15, 2025
Coming off looking like a script pulled from the Tarantino knock-off bin last drawn from in the early 00s, Riff Raff is a curious feature. It functions as a crime caper and a family comedy-drama, and the tone is, unsurprisingly, all over the place.
| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 13, 2025
Riff Raff would've been more interesting if this comedy/drama focused on the mismatched criminals played by Bill Murray and Pete Davidson, who have the best scenes in the movie. The dysfunctional blended family at the center of the story is a dull drag.
| Mar 9, 2025
What makes the film shine is that nearly none of the actors cast play against type. Dito Montiel knows the tools he is working with and uses them deftly.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 8, 2025
Crime doesn’t pay, but this comedy does, thanks to a shady bunch led by Jennifer Coolidge and Bill Murray.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2025
It feels almost criminal that this over-the-top dysfunctional comedy is so genuinely entertaining.
| Mar 4, 2025
It’s a perfectly adequate thriller with bleakly comedic overtones but, with a cast this accomplished, it’s reasonable to have expected something better.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 3, 2025
Like a pool shark, Montiel reveals his intentions only toward the end. The gamble doesn’t pay off as well as it could, but at least “Riff Raff” gets smarter as it goes on.
| Mar 1, 2025
Let's just call it an occasional hoot with menacing overtones and expect it to grow in stature as the movie years roll by.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2025
To quote the great Jay Sherman, "It's Stinks!" The dream team cast is wasted in a seen it/done it assassin story where shooting people in the head, whilst not reacting to it or feeling remorse, is long past its genre expiration date. Ms. Coolidge, why?
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 1, 2025
Murray and Harris are poetry in motion as an acting team, while Coolidge is kooky to the max, Union is the side-eye queen and Davidson is a deadly dorky foil for Murray. There’s no learning, no hugs, just hilarity and a cast of favorites.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2025
...Harris and Murray are such reliably engaging screen presences that they provide a few glimmers of entertainment, provided you’re able to set aside the movie’s practically all-encompassing repulsiveness.
| Feb 28, 2025
This is essentially a family movie that isn’t made for families with quite the dangerous ensemble of characters who play off each other in a murderous family game. Who knew crime could be so much foul-mouthed homicidal fun!
| Feb 28, 2025
There simply isn’t enough energy to fully overcome a screenplay this rote and rooted in outsized familiarity.
| Feb 28, 2025
A witless and bloody bore that seems to have been made by and for those people out there who continue to yearn for the day that “Mad Dog Time” is announced as part of the Criterion Collection.
| Feb 28, 2025
How does such a fine cast get stuck with this low-rent Sopranos wannabe?
| Original Score: C | Feb 28, 2025
This dark crime comedy-thriller squanders a top-notch ensemble cast with a labored script that’s only intermittently edgy or amusing.
| Feb 28, 2025
How do you cram a cast of A-listers, led by Bill Murray, Jennifer Coolidge and Pete Davidson, into a crime caper so laugh deprived that calling it a comedy qualifies as false advertising? Here’s your answer. And it’s a crying shame.
| Feb 28, 2025
A disproportionate crime comedy that can’t get it’s diverse cast all on the same page.
| Feb 28, 2025