Masterminds

Galifianakis' cluelessness can tickle, but he's having a progressively difficult time making things feel fresh.

It's just smart people acting like dumb people in a dumb movie.

A tooth extraction without painkillers would have been far more enjoyable.

Hess dives deeply into the ass crack of suburban North Carolina, finding lowbrow caricature courtesy his two wonderfully shameless lead actors, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.

The movie has been on ice awaiting release for over a year, owing to the bankruptcy of its studio. But some of the jokes were moldy long before that happened. Masterminds owes us our two hours back.

While the movie itself failed to steal my heart it managed to abscond with just enough of my affection I'd be tempted to give it a second look at some point in the not so distant future.

Nobody would ever mistake Masterminds for a good movie ... but it would be criminal to deny the huge laughs strewn throughout, sneakily exploding like depth charges at random intervals.

It's a rather surprising, amusing mix of playful goofiness and crass grotesqueries.

The film is plagued with bad jokes that are trying way too hard to make you laugh. [Full review in Spanish]

The long-delayed new film from director Jared Hess turns out to be a surprisingly moving love story couched in a bizarre heist film that had me laughing at some truly dark and twisted behavior.