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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

2008

Malcolm D. Lee

Martin Lawrence, James Earl Jones, Louis C.K., Margaret Avery ...

4.3

610

Comedy. Drama A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.

	Author	Review
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Turns out to be formulaic and broad but also skillfully paced and big-hearted, with a sharp cast of comics that makes the most of a sunny script."	POS
United States	Chris Kaltenbach Baltimore Sun	"Imagine a 'Three Stooges' short with a feel-good ending, and you get the idea."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"It's not the unevenness of the comedy that kills Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins but the illegitimacy of the drama."	NEU
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz The New York Times	"It’s a cut above other films of its type because every scene is packed with details"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"The film has a warmth and raucousness that's surprisingly disarming."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"An in-your-face double helping of fat jokes, crude slapstick, wacky Southern-black stereotypes and occasionally inspired improv."	NEU

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