The Bronze is an uninspired creation that feels like Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impression in a 'Little Britain' sketch.

| Original Score: D | Sep 13, 2017

A crude yet cuddly comedy written by a star of "The Big Bang Theory."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2016

There are some decent laughs here (especially for a well choreographed sex scene) and even an amusing soundtrack, but there's just not enough story to go around.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2016

The plot is beyond basic and the dialogue so crude it almost feels like an R-rated cartoon. Still, The Bronze has a loony Napoleon Dynamite-meets-Talladega Nights-on-the-balance-beam charm.

| Original Score: B | Mar 18, 2016

This ostensibly edgy comedy didn't wring a single laugh out of me until maybe fifteen minutes before the finale.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 18, 2016

The Bronze often feels like an extended skit, but Hope is so refreshingly unladylike and the movie is so refreshingly cynical about gymnastics that the results are surprisingly amusing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2016

"The Bronze" is a fiercely independent comedy, sure to be too startling for some, but that's its great promise. This world needs more pistols with this kind of firepower.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 18, 2016

Hope is overall too knee-jerk mean to like very much. But Rauch's timing is impeccable, wringing a smile even after minor jokes.

| Mar 17, 2016

An Olympic-themed tale that goes way overboard in conveying that its main character is despicable.

| Mar 17, 2016

After a while, you may even start to feel that what director Bryan Buckley & Co. really value is whatever squirming discomfort they can wring from an audience that fancies itself sophisticated enough to enjoy the naturally unpleasant.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 17, 2016

This indie comedy could have been a brutal yet endearing midwestern cult classic a la Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), but instead it's petty and repulsive.

| Mar 17, 2016

Ultimately the character of Hope is not as button-pushing or subversive as Rauch and co-writer/husband Winston Rauch believe she is.

| Mar 17, 2016

Rauch is so committed to her snotty, bitter, up-speaking protagonist that she finds the real humanity lurking there.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2016

The problem with The Bronze isn't that Melissa Rauch's Hope Ann Gregory is such a nasty, foul-mouthed, terrible little human being. It's that she's not as funny as the film thinks she is.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2016

All this plays out with a crudeness ranging from tedious to delirious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2016

This is one movie that gets better as it goes along, even as it fails to fully hit the high bar of making us care about a very nasty individual.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2016

This comedy has a few genuine laughs, but The Bronze never even comes close to making it to qualifiers.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 17, 2016

When it comes down to it, "The Bronze" is just another movie about overcoming arrested development. It's not as funny as it tries to be, but, for a few, fleeting minutes, it leaves an impression.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 17, 2016

As it stands, "The Bronze" is just clumsy, caught between the same conflicting impulses it tries to depict - the compulsion to be outrageous and the desire to be loved.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 17, 2016

Anyone looking for a truly blackhearted, merciless comedy will be disappointed. But that can be a zero-sum game; at least The Bronze softens up convincingly.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 17, 2016