Approached as comedy, Cover is a riot.
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02/22/08
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:0
Rotten:12
Average Rating:3.2/10
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Feb 22, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: When Ryan Chambers is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading... [More]
Starring: Vivica Fox, Aunjanue Ellis, Louis Gossett, Patti LaBelle
Director: Bill Duke
Reviews for Cover
1 - 13 (sorted by fresh rating)
Cover is a social-problem film without a solution. While not of the first rank, its inventory of Philadelphia's hot restaurants and cool sights is an occasion for civic pride.
02/28/08
Top CriticDuke appears to be aiming for a Tyler Perry-style mix of the taboo and the saintly, but his touch is so leaden that one ends up giggling, not weeping.
02/21/08
Fo shizzle, if it doesn't attain the well-deserved status of a camp classic, only the straight-to-video aesthetic will be to blame.
02/17/08
This reprehensible effort is not only an embarrassment to Duke, but to everyone involved ... the offensively homophobic message behind this movie is not the only thing that makes it truly awful.
02/19/08
A perfect storm of movie badness.
02/26/08
Entertaining in a way the filmmakers probably weren't intending.
02/21/08
The flesh is weak but the spirit is indestructible in Cover, a ham-fisted morality tale.
02/22/08
Top CriticA cinematic disaster which attempts to address a pressing social issue, but only fails miserably in the process.
02/19/08
Would be a candidate for the year's most unintentionally funny movie so far - if it weren't also the most homophobic.
02/22/08
Top CriticSo overwrought that it quickly crosses the line into unintentionally funny and never recovers.
02/22/08
Director Bill Duke aims for social awareness, but delivers second-rate melodrama instead.
02/26/08
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