Ultimately, Stuber wants to explore our own notions of masculinity.... Which would all be well and good, maybe, if Stuber was actually funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2020

This is a mismatched buddy and there's not a whole lot of laughs to be had.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2019

Stuber is a lumbering, tired and dumb comedy, but if that's what you're looking for, then have at it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2019

Talk about running on fumes. This buddy comedy traps two talented dudes - Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista - in a car that's going nowhere so fast that Thelma and Louise would hop right on.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2019

If you're looking for a throwback to simpler, sillier times (with a dash of self-awareness about the state of toxic masculinity in 2019), it should just about satisfy.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2019

Stuber is part of a breed of summer movies that I think of as "aggressively fine": They're not unwatchable, and you'll laugh sometimes, but they're also not very good, and there's no particular reason they couldn't be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2019

While it might be easy to give a five-star rating to an innocuous car ride, the same can't be said of movies, especially not movies that essentially function as glorified ads for a corporate brand.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2019

Stuber: An illogical buddy comedy with hopes of confronting toxic masculinity that often swerves to avoid blindly hitting plot holes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 15, 2019

I laughed at Stuber, but I laughed less and less as the movie went on, and I cared less, too.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2019

Dave Bautista might be able to bench press the combined weight of the rest of the cast in this inept action comedy - but he sure as hell can't carry a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2019

"Stuber" doesn't earn a 5-star rating, but it gets to where it needs to go.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 13, 2019

Nanjiani and Bautista find a variety of ways to make all of this work no matter what sort of nonsense Clancy's script requires them to do.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2019

Stuber knows that sense and logic aren't what its audience came for; we're here for good dumb fun - and of course, central air.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 12, 2019

Really there is very little chemistry between Bautista and Nanjiani... and if you compare this with something like the Beanie Feldstein/Kaitlyn Dever comedy Booksmart, the dialogue really does sound a bit pedestrian.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 12, 2019

Stu shrieks every story point, so even watching this grating and pointless film, filled with bone-headed plot twists, is utterly unrewarding. Save the Uber fare and stay far, far away.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2019

Though it runs just 93 minutes, Stuber is padded by gunfights that are neither thrilling nor funny, though their mix of selective slo-mo and irreverent soundtrack cuts tells us Dowse wants them to be both. Or at least one of the two. He hasn't decided.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2019

Brevity is the soul of "Stuber," which is smart enough to realize that its goals are modest (make us chuckle every minute or so) and to call it quits as soon as that's accomplished.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2019

If there were an award for Best Comedy Movie Saviour, Kumail Nanjiani would be the leading candidate to win this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2019

Nanjiani deserves better, Bautista deserves better, and you deserve better.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 12, 2019

Not surprisingly, "Stuber" is less interested in the artfulness of fight scenes than in getting the plot where it needs to go.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2019