Review of The Nice Guys (2016) by Todd Mccarthy for The Hollywood Reporter — 14 May 2016

That the film mostly falls flat has far more to do with the largely unconvincing material rather than with the co-stars, who are more than game for often clownish shenanigans Black and his co-writer Anthony Bagarozzi have concocted for them; in fit and starts, the actors display a buoyant comic rapport.