◄ The Heat (2013)
Critic Reviews
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NPR
If The Heat is about more than being a well-oiled delivery system for impressive and effective comedy, it's in part about what it means to be a good cop - including the question of how gender does or doesn't factor into that.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper
This is one of the most entertaining movies of the year.
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79
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Film.com Laremy Legel
A bawdy and belligerent comedy, meant mostly for folks looking for nothing more than to enjoy a few laughs.
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75
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
If you're going to make a dopey, bawdy, foul-mouthed, predictable lady-buddy-cop movie, you might as well make it funny. And until it overstays its welcome in the final half-hour, The Heat is shamefully funny.
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75
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Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
At its sharpest, The Heat actually moves and banters like a comedy, with sharply timed and edited dialogue sequences driven by a couple of pros ensuring a purposeful sense of momentum.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
The Heat is the best female buddy-cop movie since, well, ever.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Don't believe the weak coming-attractions trailer. The inspired pairing of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy makes for a successful action comedy.
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75
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New York Post Lou Lumenick
The Heat, which provides enough opportunity for wholesale mayhem as well as laughs, is pretty much a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.
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70
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
The script's simpleminded shenanigans notwithstanding, the two stars sync up better than their characters do, especially with some rough-and-tumble physical slapstick, resulting in a crude, low-brow audience-pleaser that will hit the funny bones of both performers' fan bases.
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63
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
This profanely hilarious and tonally erratic spoof of buddy movies is funny as it begins in "Miss Congeniality 2" territory, funnier still as it zooms into "Lethal Weapon" climes. But it stops dead, and I mean that literally, when it takes a U-turn into a "Pulp Fiction" sinkhole of slapstick violence.
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60
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Every foul-mouthed joke [McCarthy] cracks, every unexpected physical gag she underplays, is so funny you forget how often we've seen this setup. Or, when it comes to women, how rarely.
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20
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Grotesque doesn't begin to describe Ms. McCarthy's new character. Scarily insane comes closer; repulsive occasionally applies. Mullins's insanity can be extremely funny from time to time, but her anger grows as punishing for the audience as it does for the victims of her unrestrained police work.
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