It's so funny. I don't know if it'll change race relations, but it'll make you laugh.

| Feb 10, 2023

Now, there are enough thoughtful screen examinations of racial politics along with normalized visions of inclusive casting to make "You People" stand out as a gormless throwback.

| Feb 4, 2023

The film is much more interested in social embarrassment cringe and gags than it is in any sort of close examination of how racism affects interracial couples.

| Feb 2, 2023

Here's a recipe for success: great actors, including Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, plus an affecting story and lots of droll, awkward comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2023

The one person to emerge with credit from the melee is Murphy, whose character grows ever more rigid with anger. Supporting actors as forceful as Rhea Perlman and Elliott Gould barely get a chance to speak.

| Feb 2, 2023

The movie is much better when it relaxes its death grip on screenwriter-y punchlines and slapstick cringe and just allows its cavalcade of stars to act like actual, you know, people.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 1, 2023

You People carries the unresolved, disjointed tension of a sitcom that’s been stretched to the two-hour mark.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2023

The first third of the picture is promising, if frequently excruciating. But the points are painfully laboured and the jokes run out of steam.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2023

A movie that so rarely rings true it starts to make your skin crawl.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 28, 2023

In a movie where Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris process white privilege and affection for Black culture, the Black characters are treated with less generosity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2023

Without Murphy’s deadpan, steely reactions to the latest affront, You People would be all strain and little gain.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2023

“You People” is so tame in its take on race that it makes “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” look like Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.”

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 27, 2023

For all its insistence that it’s a daring piece of social commentary, You People is, above all, a romance without a beating heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2023

The film can’t figure out if it wants to be a love story or social commentary, and ends up doing neither very well.

| Jan 27, 2023

A topnotch cast can’t fully redeem material that gets lost somewhere between satire and sitcom as assembled by star Jonah Hill and director Kenya Barris.

| Jan 27, 2023

Most scenes stick to the same formula – awkward situation arises, characters verbally fumble their way through it – but Hill and Barris’s script seems unsure of just how wacky or eccentric it’s allowed to be...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2023

Kenya Barris disastrously trades cutting social satire for romcom pablum when a Jewish podcaster (Jonah Hill) and his Black fiancé (Lauren London) break up after her dad (Eddie Mirphy) and his mom (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) turn a wedding into a race war.

| Jan 27, 2023

Funny, if a little formulaic. Murphy and Hill make for a very watchable duo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2023

Murphy playing it straight is one of his funniest performances, and the movie is not afraid to include some sharp commentary along with the sillier moments.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 27, 2023

... A Guess Who's Coming to Dinner-style rehash which pits the two parties against each other but puts straitjackets on them both.

| Original Score: C | Jan 27, 2023