Top Five (2014)
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Critic Consensus: As smart, funny, and trenchant as writer-director-star Chris Rock's best standup work, Top Five is a career highlight for its creator -- and one of the comedy standouts of 2014.
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as Andre Allen
as Chelsea Brown
as Berkani
as Benny
as Lisa
as Charles
as Herself
as Himself
as Himself
as Fred
as Jazzy Dee
as Silk
as Vanessa
as Brad
as Paul
as Mike
as Pill Girl
as Tammy
as Michele
as Columbia Student
as Sirius XM DJ
as Carl Allen
as Craig
as Andre Fan
as Rhonda
as Ryan's Date
as Grace
as Drunk Businessman
as Ryan
as Cocktail Waitress
as Gladys
as Biker AA Guy
as Publicist
as Big Female Cop
as 1st Row Audience Member
as Columbia Student
as Student
as Wendy
as Comic on Stage
as Bouncer
as Dolce & Gabbana Client
as Macaroni Girl
as Jasmine
as Large Girl
as Fan
as L.A. Hair Dresser
as Flight Attendant
as Columbia Student
as Andre's Driver #2
as Comedy Club Patron
as Maurice the Tailor
as Supermarket Cashier
as Undercover Detective
as New York Police Officer
as Police Officer
as Andre's Friend
as Annoyed Laughing Jail Bird Watching TV
as Inmate
as Janitor
as Exotic Dancer
as Andre's Driver #1
as Armed Terrorist #1
as Audience Member
as AA Member
as Armed Terrorist #1
as College Student
as Jailhouse Prisoner
as Paparazzi
as Casting Agent
as Talent Agent
as Hotel Guest
as Fan
as Actor
as Daughter
as Bartender
as Restaurant Patron
as Umpire
as Columbia Student
as Audience Member
as Celebrity Baker
as Supermarket Manager
as Bus Boy
as Police Officer
as Himself
as Herself
as Himself
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Critic Reviews for Top Five
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Chris Rock's Top Five is very funny -- no surprise there -- but it's also unexpectedly romantic.
As a director, Chris Rock makes a fine stand-up comic.
A seriously funny, semi-autobiographical film that might be the most accomplished work Chris Rock has ever done for the big screen.
It doesn't always hit its mark, but even its misses feel personal and unself-conscious - a genuine reflection of Chris Rock, auteur.
Like Rock's best stand-up shows, Top Five mixes the sweet with the salty, the naughty with the remarkably kind. It celebrates the darkly hilarious with the light of whip-smart observations.
For an ostensibly soul-deep movie like this to work, we need more than smirks and scowls.
Audience Reviews for Top Five
Rumored to be a Woody Allen-esque Chris Rock movie, "Top Five" IS a pretty walky-talky journey between a B-list comedian with A-list aspirations and the journalist interviewing him, but I'm not really sure about the relevance of the inciting task of ranking one's top five favorite rap artists. The scope of the interview is more expansive than that. Chris Rock and Rosario Dawson eventually create some tragically beautiful missed-connection chemistry, but the movie is too slow throughout and too afraid to let the intimate conversation carry itself.
Super Reviewer
This is a very unique and intriguing movie. Chris Rock's social awareness while writing this part-satirical/part-meta screenplay really pays off as it explores the life of reality stars/celebrities and their on and off screen personas. There are some hilarious moments, but "interesting" or "charming" are better ways to describe this movie. The cameos are also very nice. This film is Rock solid work.
Super Reviewer
Made me laugh and think. Launk? Thingh? Anyway - see it, you won't be sorry.
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