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Coffee & Kareem

Comedy Twelve-year-old Kareem Manning hires a criminal to scare his mom's new boyfriend -police officer James Coffee - but it backfires, forcing Coffee and Kareem to team up in order to save themselves from Detroit's most ruthless drug kingpin.
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"A rogue buddy cop plotline so padded with bad jokes (many of which are homophobic), aimlessly vulgar language and hackneyed plot points that it makes its 88 minutes congeal beyond a recognizable measure of time."  NEG
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Variety
Variety
"It should offend people that such a project seems to be pitched at young audiences (...) A movie whose most consistently recurring gag amounts to putting a 12-year-old in outrageously inappropriate situations."  NEG
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The Wrap
The Wrap
"It’s kind of a mess, a crazy balancing act that flails as often as it connects (...) [It has] at least one scene-stealing performance [Gilpin's] that hits just the right note of insanity"  NEU
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
"A tone-deaf attempt to recreate the nasty comic vibe people associate with certain '80s buddy cop films"  NEG
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IGN
IGN
"A raunchy cop comedy with clever jokes, zany action, and fun chemistry between leads Ed Helms and young Terrence Little Gardenhigh"  POS
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"Although its lame-pun title is a tip-off, it still won’t prepare you for the 88 irretrievable minutes of your life that is the barrel-bottom action-comedy 'Coffee & Kareem'."  NEG
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IndieWire
IndieWire
"Not that 'Coffee & Kareem' doesn’t offer up a handful of inspired gags (...) but it takes nearly an hour to get into anything that extends beyond crude, unimaginative table-setting"  NEU
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AV Club
AV Club
"'Coffee & Kareem' is laziness masquerading as irreverence (...) [It] makes a real mess at its own intersections, with unnecessary complications and bizarre excuses"  NEG
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TV Guide
TV Guide
"A film that starts off extremely funny, but becomes overwhelming by the end (...) It's the cumulative effect that's the problem (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"  NEU
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
"It’s almost astonishing how unfunny this movie is (...) In the world of 'Coffee & Kareem,' nobody ever bypasses the opportunity to make a strained joke about incest or rape."  NEG
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Screen Rant
Screen Rant
"The action sequences are haphazardly constructed (...) and the actors regularly resort to yelling louder to make the film's jokes seem funnier than they are (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"  NEG
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Decider
Decider
"[It] feels played out now; also dated are quaint scenes featuring pre-coronavirus occurrences such as sneezing in public without getting drawn and quartered"  NEG
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