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

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

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

There doesn’t seem to be a single original bone in this film’s body.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2025

Murray’s Boston accent wobbles a bit from time to time, but he and Davidson are hilarious and yet somehow suitably menacing as a couple of killers who will shoot you dead just because you happened to hear their names.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2025

The new film is jokier than the director’s usual fare, but it takes familial relationships seriously. Mixed with solid-to-spectacular performances and quirk that mostly avoids cutesiness, the combination pays off as often as not.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2025

In spite of clocking in at just 103 minutes, Dito Montiel‘s family crime comedy “Riff Raff” is exceptionally long.

| Sep 20, 2024

While Montiel is still a great “actors director,” eliciting grounded, and at times wonderfully mordant, performances from his stacked ensemble cast, the script has stranded them in a film that plays like a copy of a copy of a copy of several better films.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 15, 2024

The film’s action rarely leaves the secluded holiday home, and seeing these personalities collide has its thrills.

| Sep 13, 2024

Riff Raff is a flat-looking movie with a tone that’s all over the map and a strong cast mostly left floundering.

| Sep 10, 2024

Most families don’t have nearly as much bloodshed while ringing in the new year, but that doesn’t stop Montiel from introducing his wicked version of “Auld Lang Syne.”

| Sep 10, 2024