
New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown is spending a day interviewing comedian and recovering alcoholic Andre Allen, star of the hit film franchise Hammy The Bear, about a cop in a bear suit. Chelsea has forgotten her audio recorder, so they first go to her apartment. While there they discuss a magazine article about the Cinderella complex. Chelsea explains that Cinderella left something behind to let the prince know that she wanted to see him again..... (Full plot summary below)
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New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown is spending a day interviewing comedian and recovering alcoholic Andre Allen, star of the hit film franchise Hammy The Bear, about a cop in a bear suit. Chelsea has forgotten her audio recorder, so they first go to her apartment. While there they discuss a magazine article about the Cinderella complex. Chelsea explains that Cinderella left something behind to let the prince know that she wanted to see him again..
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| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonAll of this is very funny, informed by Rock's insider's view of big-time show business, made specific by his unique perspective on race and class, success and failure. |
| BlackFilm.comWilson MoralesTop Five is easily the "Avengers" of comedians where the laugh meter never drops from its highest point. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAs brilliantly funny as Chris Rock is, he's never been able to replicate the high-voltage danger and electricity of his stand-up act on the big screen. But in his latest film, the sharply satirical Top Five, he not only makes a case for why he should be a bona fide movie star, he also proves he's a writer-director to be reckoned with. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerFor an ostensibly soul-deep movie like this to work, we need more than smirks and scowls. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyA disorganized, dawdling mess of a movie that is rarely anything less than charming. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversTop Five is Rock's best movie by a mile. It's authentically hilarious. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonWith Top Five, Rock has finally made the transition to true movie stardom. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniA truly refreshing break from the Hollywood humdrum, the film is a perfect vehicle for Rock's range of talents, giving him plenty of breathing space to launch into his trademark stand-up riffs while grounding him in a story as moving as it is funny. |
| VarietyScott FoundasRock is enormously appealing here, balancing his patented comic abrasiveness with a real tenderness, the faint bewilderment of an ordinary man blindsided by his own success. And Dawson makes an excellent foil. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe film feels freshly minted because the man who made it has such a lively mind and fearless style. At a time when all too many movies are selling bleakness and dysfunction, it also feels like a revenant from Hollywood’s golden age, when an entertainment’s highest function was to entertain. |