Identity Thief Reviews
September 11, 2020
Despite it's formulas and occasionally stale moments, I found myself surrendered to the entire journey and enjoying myself immensely.
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| Original Score: 3.0/4.0
November 6, 2018
s there a heart-wrenching back story to explain why Diana is the way she is? Yes. Did I laugh? Yes.
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| Original Score: 6/10
April 14, 2016
Director Seth Gordon's best film since his brilliant debut, "The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters."
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
April 25, 2013
Sure, the two leads deserve better material, but there are enough laughs here to make up for a lot of creative mistakes-casting isn't one of them.
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| Original Score: B
March 22, 2013
Without the irrepressible force of comic mayhem that is Melissa McCarthy, road-movie comedy Identity Thief would end up in the ditch. Luckily, the Bridesmaids co-star barrels her way through the plot's stickiest patches.
March 12, 2013
Identity Thief isn't a great comedy in the class of McCarthy's Bridesmaids, but it's still a decent one ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 27, 2013
Identity Theft is perfectly performed, often wildly funny, and a great movie night option for the not-easily-embarrassed.
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| Original Score: 7/10
February 21, 2013
[A] funny, though formulaic, mismatched-duo comedy ...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
February 14, 2013
It's not perfect, but it is a wild 'n' crazy road trip on the lighter side of a topic that, as a lot of folks have discovered, is no laughing matter.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
February 12, 2013
Bateman and McCarthy elevate the material to a higher level than it should have.
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| Original Score: 7/10
February 8, 2013
Even with all its shortcomings and sentimental fudges, there is something about McCarthy's refusal to lie down and play the victim that gives it a comic edge. A blunt edge, to be sure, but an edge all the same.
February 8, 2013
What keeps "Identity Thief" from being totally derailed is (Melissa) McCarthy's performance. She is a wonderful physical comedian who can elicit laughs just by running on a highway.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
February 8, 2013
[Identity Thief] exhausts most of the comic potential from identity theft in the first 20 minutes and then turns into a solid but unexceptional road picture.
February 8, 2013
Chemistry is the reason things click. Actors with the ability to connect their characters to you always overcome a multitude of movie sins.
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| Original Score: 4/5
February 8, 2013
Laugh out loud funny with bravura performances by Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman and a terrific supporting cast.
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| Original Score: 9/10
February 8, 2013
Really, this a two-hander that unfolds at two distinctly separate speeds.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
February 8, 2013
Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy make a terrific comedy team in this road trip romp.
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| Original Score: B
February 8, 2013
McCarthy is a worthy successor to John Candy, who also had a gift for warming up caricatures with loveable humanity.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
February 8, 2013
For a movie that's essentially a gender-scrambled version of Midnight Run, Identity Thief is an amiable rip-off.
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| Original Score: 4/5
February 7, 2013
For all of its extraneous subplots and contrived scripting [the film's] got one decidedly potent weapon in the form of the fearless dynamo Melissa McCarthy.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4