By those very meager standards, Spy will just about do the job: it looks like someone’s in control, it’s not gratuitously offensive towards the marginalized, it has the guts to get violent and get an unexpected laugh via a jolt...

| Jan 23, 2023

If you want something fresh, intelligent, and outside of the modern norm good luck finding it here.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Even though the R-rated movie overstays its welcome by about a half-hour, preventing itself from becoming a sharp, breezy lark, it’s a James Bond parody worth a casual viewing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2022

Melissa McCarthy shows off her superb comic timing in this frothy action comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 14, 2021

Spy is a smart and uplifting film - one that's finally worthy of Melissa McCarthy's comedic genius.

| Jan 28, 2021

Melissa McCarthy and crew brandish a polished comedic expertise to poke fun at every major facet of the spy subgenre.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

I can say with some certainty that a good comedy is hard to find. I can confirm this is one of them.

| Oct 13, 2020

There's something absolutely irresistible about Melissa McCarthy. It's a beautiful thing to behold when she gifts us with a film worthy of her talent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

Does it occur to Feig-or anyone involved in the making of Spy-that not everyone dotes on the forces of law and order nor finds their operations as endlessly fascinating as he apparently does?

| Aug 11, 2020

'Spy' is a hilarious comedy that knows how to make fun of James Bond movies without falling into the dangerous routine of using gags as its only narrative engine. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Apr 28, 2020

It was hilarious... and it had pretty good action.

| Apr 28, 2020

It was exactly what I wanted. It was fun, it was stupid, it was entertaining.

| Apr 28, 2020

I hope one of these days someone will write a Groundhog Day-level script for McCarthy, and she'll finally get to create the classic her talent promises. But until then, Spy is a pretty agreeable time at the theater.

| Jan 10, 2020

A balls-to-the-wall, mile-a-minute laugh fest that plays as if custom made for the comedic talents of its stars.

| Dec 8, 2019

It's the secret agent action movie flipped on its head. Mr. Perfect Agent has a secret weapon in his ear: Melissa McCarthy.

| Oct 21, 2019

Had it not been for one painfully tone deaf, unfunny, offensive running gag, Spy would have been damn good and not simply good.

| Original Score: B | Jul 30, 2019

Spy is funny, violent and exciting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2019

While Feig doesn't reach same level of quality he did with Bridesmaids, he gives McCarthy's talent the platform it's deserved for a long time, and she makes the most of it.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Mar 13, 2019

We finally have an action-adventure comedy that is truly funny and truly feminist.

| Mar 8, 2019

Fieg and McCarthy have already had success with "Bridesmaids" and "The Heat," but this may be the best of the bunch -- a whip-smart send-up of the James Bond genre, that is also very, very funny.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 23, 2019