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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ObserverEmily ZemlerObserverEmily ZemlerThe Out-Laws may not be for everyone, but two things are for sure: DeVine has the potential to be a major comedy star and Brosnan needs more roles where he doesn’t have to play serious. The rest is a welcome distraction for a Friday night at home.
- 70The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThe Out-Laws, directed by Tyler Spindel, is a slight comedy, but it’s also raucous and kickily violent, with several laugh-in-spite-of-your-better-judgment bits.
- 63Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe Out-Laws shines when it spotlights the committed performances of its cast.
- 50IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichLike so much of The Out-Laws, Brosnan and Barkin are both a little better than they need to be, and also a lot better than their material demands.
- 42ColliderTania HussainColliderTania HussainThe Out-Laws has a workable premise with a great star-studded cast led by a sincere DeVine and is funny with great potential outside its humor. But it never hits the mark and only works in pieces due to recycled ideas and formulaic tropes across clichéd writing.
- 40Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNo situation or character really gets a chance to breathe or grow here. Even the best casts can flail when the vibe is more antic than comic.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThere’s a good story at the heart of The Out-Laws about Parker coming to terms with her family’s long criminal history. But that’s more or less tossed aside in favor of all the nonstop gags, in a film that starts off like Meet the Parents and ends like a goofier The Expendables, some excessive violence included.
- 30VarietyMurtada ElfadlVarietyMurtada ElfadlA by-the-books comedy, “The Out-Laws” misses its target. It doesn’t make its audience laugh, and it wastes its cast by putting them in the most obvious situations and giving them forgettable jokes.
- 30Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonWall Street JournalJohn AndersonPutting a bona-fide imbecile at the center of all this leads, inevitably, to far-too-predictable situations in which he will do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, sob uncontrollably, and generate no sympathy at all.
- 12RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzNearly every aspect of this feature from Tyler Spindel, formerly a second unit director for Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, is derivative and desperate and, at the same time, bizarrely pleased with itself.