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By Ross Bonaime (185) for Collider (1,032) on 03 Feb 2023

If anyone could’ve updated this story for 2023, it’s Barris—as he's shown with black-ish…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 03 Feb 2023

It’s a film that fits perfectly within the confines of a romantic comedy even while it swaps out every familiar element and explores brand-new…

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By Rob Rector (46) for Film Threat (5,156) on 01 Feb 2023

You People chooses to bounce along from one awkward situation to the next, with little time to let the characters feel like actual people…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 30 Jan 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…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 27 Jan 2023

Director Kenya Barris disastrously trades cutting social satire for romcom pablum when a Jewish podcaster (Jonah Hill) and his a Black fiancé…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 Jan 2023

A modern attempt at something like “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” from the creator of “Black-ish” and co-written by star Jonah Hill,…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Jan 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…

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By Paolo Ragusa (5) for Consequence (296) on 27 Jan 2023

The chemistry between the two leads may not be indestructible, but luckily, their comedic chops and charismatic air give us a lot to root for…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 27 Jan 2023

You People is a comic throwback, an all-star Jonah and Lauren and Nia, Julia and Eddie, Mike Epps and David Duchovny singing John Legend off-key…

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By Ct Jones (2) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 27 Jan 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…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 27 Jan 2023

With a smooth overlay of LA sights and sounds, and a side of blueprints stolen from “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Meet the Fockers,”…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 27 Jan 2023

You People relies on cringe-inducing moments as the crux of its comedy, as a Jewish guy and a Black Muslim woman (neither of them particularly…

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By Lauren Mechling (9) for The Guardian (2,969) on 27 Jan 2023

Mercifully, Murphy adds a dose of sharpness to the project, wrapping his lines in a delivery so sleek and spirited you’d almost think they…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Jan 2023

Hill and London build on a nice vibe…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Jan 2023

For the first half-hour, Netflix has a high-concept hit on its hands…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 26 Jan 2023

In spirit, it’s all very Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner…

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By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 26 Jan 2023

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

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By Odie Henderson (402) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 26 Jan 2023

Director Kenya Barris, who also co-wrote the script with Jonah Hill, intended to make an edgy, race-based cringe comedy; the result is afraid…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jan 2023

You People busts out of the gate with the lit, razor-sharp zip of a “Dear White People” only to limp across the finish line with all the…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 25 Jan 2023

The familiar and facile elements are drowned out – often, and loudly – by the impeccable comedic talents of Hill and Murphy, two performers…

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