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An all-star comedy lineup is wasted on a paper-thin plot and painfully clunky dialogue.
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''Harlem Nights,'' it's worth remembering, is a comedy, though as the body count piles up and entire reels go by without a joke in sight, it's also easy to forget. March 26, 2019 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
''Harlem Nights,'' it's worth remembering, is a comedy, though as the body count piles up and entire reels go by without a joke in sight, it's also easy to forget.
Dave Kehr
If he's going to confine himself to bad movies like "Harlem Nights," it's probably better that he writes and directs them himself. March 26, 2019 | Full Review…
If he's going to confine himself to bad movies like "Harlem Nights," it's probably better that he writes and directs them himself.
Michael Wilmington
Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie Murphy?" It looks as if it has. March 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie Murphy?" It looks as if it has.
Richard Schickel
The plot exposition gets laborious in spots, the period flavor is only occasional and approximate, and the direction tends to be clunky, yet the strong secondary cast helps to take up some of the slack. March 26, 2019 | Full Review…
The plot exposition gets laborious in spots, the period flavor is only occasional and approximate, and the direction tends to be clunky, yet the strong secondary cast helps to take up some of the slack.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
If only it had played funnier. March 26, 2019 | Full Review…
If only it had played funnier.
Jay Boyar
The plot is a standard recycling of rival gangs battling for turf, and the stunner is why Murphy found any interest in his own script. March 26, 2019 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
The plot is a standard recycling of rival gangs battling for turf, and the stunner is why Murphy found any interest in his own script.
Gene Siskel
Scoring high marks alternatively for repellent dialogue, staging and characterizations as well as deadly boredom, Harlem Nights may well be the worst major movie of 1989. March 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Scoring high marks alternatively for repellent dialogue, staging and characterizations as well as deadly boredom, Harlem Nights may well be the worst major movie of 1989.
Candice Russell
"Harlem Nights" is billed as an action-comedy, but it doesn't blend the two very smoothly. March 26, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
"Harlem Nights" is billed as an action-comedy, but it doesn't blend the two very smoothly.
Dennis King
What this film suffers from is lack of fun. March 26, 2019 | Full Review…
What this film suffers from is lack of fun.
Ralph Novak
The plan was to make a latter-day version of a 1930s gangster movie; the result has some nifty costumes, luscious sets and neat music, but, on almost every other count, it's a mess. March 26, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The plan was to make a latter-day version of a 1930s gangster movie; the result has some nifty costumes, luscious sets and neat music, but, on almost every other count, it's a mess.
Peter Freedman
Unfortunately, a real comedy needs a decent plot, interesting characters and some kind of creative context to work out of. March 26, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, a real comedy needs a decent plot, interesting characters and some kind of creative context to work out of.
William Thomas
In the end, there's no soul to be had in this city of appearances. March 26, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
In the end, there's no soul to be had in this city of appearances.
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