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Coffee & Kareem
2020
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Coffee & Kareem
Positive Reviews
14
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
1.9
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1.9
If youre thinking about the optics of a Caucasian cop and African American characters, so is the script, though it doesnt have worthwhile commentary w ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Diverting enough at just under 90 minutes, Coffee & Kareem likely wont do for the R rated comedy (well, presumably R rated, since the streaming world ..
Indie Wire
0.5
As for fans of broad Police Academy style farce, Helms shows theres potential in the Coffee character.
Variety
0.5
Whatever the case, Netflix isnt too bothered about your reaction to something, theyll just be pleased theyve got eyes on their new film.
We Got This Covered
2.0
Theres a better movie buried underneath the many corpses in the crude and confused Netflix comedy Coffee & Kareem, one of their algorithmically assemb ..
The Guardian
4.5
But youre likely not watching for John Wick level shootouts or cool car chases or grand explosions.
Collider
1.5
Making a film that feels two days long is not the same thing as making 48 Hrs.
The Hollywood Reporter
1.5
Additionally, Coffee must show that hes more than a weak, poor, uncool white guy to the 12 year old Kareem, who aspires to become a rapper and wears a ..
The New York Times
3.5
Coffee & Kareem keeps it simple, short, and to the (ultra) violent point as a raunchy cop comedy with clever jokes, zany action, and fun chemistry bet ..
IGN
1.5
Although its lame pun title is a tip off, it still wont prepare you for the 88 irretrievable minutes of your life that is the barrel bottom action com ..
2.0
Coffee & Kareem is more instant and forgettable than artisanal and savour worthy.
3.0
While far from a slam dunk, there are enough belly laughs in this one to make it well worth a watch.
JoBlo
2.0
Slapdash to a fault, Coffee & Kareem is an irreverent time waster that cant make up its mind about whether its sophomoric or subversive.
Screen Rant
3.8
All that, and theres a decent Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans joke, too.
The Globe And Mail
1.3
Never expect anything out of a film with an awful pun as its title.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.0
Profane and insipid, Coffee & Kareem is a bad title stuck with a worse film.
Blu Ray
3.1
...a familiar setup thats employed to pervasively erratic effect by Dowse...
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Its pungently offensive and bracingly violent, but this Detroit set action comedy is also blessed with a sharp script by Shane Mack and a weirdly like ..
The Times
0.0
You cant reason with a mad black woman, instructs Kareem, theres six Tyler Perry movies about that shit.
Rolling Stone
1.5
Coffee is so inept that hes pathetic, and Vanessa merely shrieks irrationally.
Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Kareem doesnt take kindly to some mustached white guy banging his mom, and isnt afraid to say it to Coffee in the most vulgar terms.
Decider
1.5
Things quickly escalate into chaos and stay there, but they do so in ways that are not quite funny enough to make you forget the implausibilities or t ..
The Wrap
2.0
With a potty mouthed kid the unabashed selling point, director Michael Dowse follows disappointing buddy comedy Stuber with more of the same.
Flim List
2.0
Yet this isnt in any way a torturous film to sit through, its simply an uninspired and totally unmemorable piece of work.
Flickering Myth
2.0
The biggest problem with Coffee & Kareem is no one is likable, least of all Gardenhighs character, whose tough talking, off putting exterior isnt mask ..
Detroit News
2.0
Coffee & Kareem is an unfunny, insensitive, exploitative mess that is awful from even the very first sip.
The Play List
1.5
An 80s style buddy comedy with x rated language, Coffee & Kareem takes a wildly implausible premise and flogs the living tar out of it.
Independent Ie
1.0
And unlike last years envelope pushing comedy Good Boys, theres no redeeming sweetness underlying the abundant salty language.
Stuff
3.1
Coffee is a well intentioned bozo, who cant ever seem to do much right.
Big Picture Big Sound
1.9
Its almost astonishing how unfunny this movie is, given the talents of primary cast members Ed Helms, Taraji P. Henson, Betty Gilpin and David Alan Gr ..
Chicago Sun Times
1.0
Shane Macks awful script stomps on the racial dynamics at work here.
Punch Drunk Critics
1.0
Coffee & Kareem sacrifices plot for poor jokes and boring action sequences.
One Room With A View
0.5
Here, its just splattery violence and mayhem that pyrrhically counts as a climax.
Bitly
1.5
The films two central characters, Officer Coffee (Ed Helms) and young Kareem (Terrence Little Gardenhigh) dont get along.
Polygon
2.0
Vanessa is constantly asked why shes dating, well, a dorky white guyespecially one without much money, multiple people clarifyand its important to bot ..
Film Avclub
2.0
There is a lot of talent available in the new Netflix comedy Coffee and Kareem. Unfortunately that talent is saddled in a screenplay that feels like i ..
Bowling Green Daily News
1.0
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National Post
2.0
A tone deaf homage to 80s interracial buddy crime moves like Beverly Hills Cop or Lethal Weapon, with Oedipal overtones.
Original Cin
2.0
There are laughs to be had, requiring considerable narrative suspension of disbelief in its ridiculousness, but is ultimately comprised of little subs ..
Ion Cinema
0.0
Advertisement Coffee & Kareem first caught my attention because its title suggested some kind of satirical audacity.
National Review
3.8
Its a pretty hard edged comedy, with violence as outsize as its humor.
Datebook Sfchronicle
1.3
Coffee & Kareem has a sweet premise at its core, with the two polar opposites tied together on a crazy quest, but its gets bogged down in its mission ..
Ap News
2.0
Look: Is your bar as low as your energy right now Does a new buddy cop movie sound diverting enough You got Netflix Choose this over the endless, list ..
Mid West Film Journal
1.5
There just isnt much there; you can only rely on recycled cop tropes and cursing children for so long. (
1.5
Coffee & Kareem, the new Netflix action comedy that Helms both produced and stars in, isnt really trying to be anything other than a pile up of movies ..
Thril List
2.5
Somewhere in the midst of all of this frenzied activity Betty Gilpin (from TVs GLOW and the controversial horror pic The Hunt) almost overacts as Dete ..
Adelaide Review
1.5
Theres nothing extremely exciting unfolding on screen, but there is also nothing incompetently filmed and headache inducing either.
Battle Royale With Cheese
4.5
I wish the humor was more memorable, but the absurdity of the situation and the heart it creates definitely make up for it. Its definitely risqu, but ..
Geeks Of Color
1.5
Despite the 80s throwback and some funny moments, Coffee & Kareem unfortunately feels forced in recreating the same old formula with raunchy jokes tha ..
Bangkok Post
1.5
Coffee & Kareem isnt intelligent enough to be considered satire, leaving us with a film that has no idea what it is except a waste of 88 minutes.
The Jam Report
1.9
Raunchy comedies can be a lot of fun, and this one certainly had potential given the talent involved, but it just couldnt deliver in a consistent way.
Daily Journal
4.5
First, theres The Big Show Show, a sitcom starring you guessed it The Big Show, which hit the small screen last week, and now theres The Main Event.
Vanyaland
4.0
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That Shelf
1.5
Understand that Coffee isnt a bad cop because hes enthusiastically corrupt and/or vicious.
About Boulder
2.5
Its not that hes miscast hes a formidable teen actor trying his best he just isnt done any favors by the raunchy script.
Wtop
1.5
I got a few laughs in it...Im caught between it scraping by, but just the premise alone was lazy and it feels like they made all this because of a pun ..
Double Toasted
1.5
If its exhausting trying to explain the movie, thats nothing next to actually watching it.
CultureMap
0.5
Apparently, the Detroit Police Department doesnt want Coffee to have a cop partner, since hes never seen with a partner.)
4.5
The language is blue, blue, blue and its not to everyones taste, but Gardenhigh is a comedy revelation. Where has he seen all these years!
What She Said Radio
0.5
It does exactly as promised and never pretends to be anything else.
Pólvora
2.5
Fortunately, Coffee & Kareem has an excellent supporting cast ... without them, the movie wouldnt be worth watching. With them, it (just barely) is.
Box Office Prophets
1.0
In more than the usual so many words, Kareem doesnt like where Coffees nightstick has been.
25YL (25 Years Later)
2.0
Director Michael Dowse and writer Shane Mack travel a crass, improbable path of ridiculousness where Coffee & Kareem crashes before its halfway throug ..
Akron Beacon Journal
1.0
The film puts together worn out buddy comedy shenanigans with crude humour, degenerating into an unexciting, predictable and preposterous mess along t ..
The News International (Pa ..
0.5
umor is so damnably absent from this witless, noxious sludge of a comedy... that one suspects those involved may have worn out their rotator cuffs hig ..
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