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Kyle Smith, New York Post: As a comedy, the film isn't especially funny, and as a screwball drug caper a la "Go," it's raggedly plotted, with ridiculous coincidences popping up everywhere. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: The cast, drawn from comedy, rap, TV, modeling and other spheres, is sharply on form throughout, as is Famuyiwa's direction; the pic's esprit is amplified by every editorial trick in the book, from split-screen to freeze-frames. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: In an era full of indifferent, cookie-cutter indies, an excess of ideas and personality is hardly a bad thing. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The acting is uniformly good. This is Moore's first big role, and he delivers a performance both entertaining and believable. Read more
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: "Dope" is too smart and lively to be dismissed. It's even original in its mixing of ingredients, however unoriginal those ingredients may be. But it's also unfeeling and, beneath its in-the-hood surface, as much a bit of artifice as a Wes Anderson movie. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: The movie is overly ambitious but never dull, and the ensemble cast is fun to watch. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The tone of "Dope" is very interesting - funny, but rarely stupid-funny. The film does not wear its serious observations, about aspirations and realities and hypocrisies of all kinds (not just racial), in a heavy fashion. Read more
Patrick Dunn, Detroit News: When so many black movie characters are simple stereotypes, it's a pleasure to see a film with real wit about the benefits and pitfalls of playing to and against those expectations. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Be sure to stay for the end credits. No other summer-movie credit crawl is going to get audiences dusting off their old Running Man and Cabbage Patch dance moves like this one. Take that, Jurassic World. Read more
Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter: A funny and often intelligent crowd-pleaser about three geeks who get smart about drug-dealing. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "Dope" is, in the end, just another unfunny grab bag of stereotypes. Don't believe the hype. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: While Famuyiwa deserves the lion's share of acclaim for making "Dope" such an inventive, hyperactive and electrifying comedy, it is Moore who gives "Dope" its big heart. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Here is the rare movie overstuffed with memorable moments that would have been better if there had been fewer of them. Read more
Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: The tone is fast and funny, with a modern "Risky Business" or "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" vibe, but there's an additional layer that stems from the violence of the neighborhood. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Mr. Famuyiwa ... shoves disparate genre elements together as if pulling jigsaw puzzle pieces from a half-dozen different boxes, and if the finished work isn't quite convincing, it's still fun to look at. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film's ability to confound expectations while delivering some big laughs may be its most crowd-pleasing characteristic but the anti-stereotype message rings clear as a bell throughout. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Shameik Moore gives a smashing breakout performance in a comedy of social expectation that plays like an exhilarating gift. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Moore, who's done some TV work and is also a singer and dancer, emerges as a genuine movie star in "Dope." He's very good looking and has charisma to burn, and he controls the screen in every scene he's in. Which is practically every scene. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Shameik Moore is a forceful, sympathetic locus, with an appealing gentleness of spirit that in no way seems entirely innocent. There's a drive there. As for Zoe Kravitz, she is having one terrific year. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Dope's biggest strength lies in its affectionate and honest portrait of a different kind of young urban blackness than we're used to seeing on movie screens. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's downright dainty as far as plot, but a mostly tasty layer cake of drugs, jokes, sex, jokes, cool young cast members, jokes, 1992 hip-hop, cartoony characters, a heist and a lot more jokes. Read more
Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Dope" is funny, slick and sharp. Read more
Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press: A fantastical, slight, and occasionally fun, hip hop-scored romp. Read more
Julian Carrington, Globe and Mail: Even as Famuyiwa acknowledges the preconceptions that Malcolm's blackness engenders, he invites audiences to identify with the character on the basis of his relatable interests, aspirations and vulnerabilities. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A narrative as freewheeling as this one might ordinarily daze and confuse. But Malcolm makes for such a forceful character, it's easy to go along with whatever direction he's headed in. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa ... doubles down on an applying-to-Harvard satire that both upends demographic expectations while insisting (at times a bit strenuously) that we all aim a little higher. Read more
Brian Truitt, USA Today: Dope digs into racial culture in a real way with Malcolm struggling with the fact that he doesn't fit being a geek or a menace to society, and it's a hoot to root him on as he finds his place somewhere in between. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: Again and again, Dope puts us in Malcolm's Air Jordans, letting us sweat or fear or hope right with him. Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's a remorselessly entertaining, Frankenstein's monster of pop-culture borrowings and appropriations. So much so that it becomes very much its own thing. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: "Dope" is the bomb. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: If "Dope" were as earnest as Malcolm seems to be, you might expect it to be a bit of a bore. No worries on that count, though. Read more