Bowfinger: Critic Reviews

70%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

80%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Bowfinger isn't quite the deliriously slap-happy farce it wants to be, but Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy generate just enough laughs to keep you watching it.
Full Review » 12 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Bowfinger never hits a note of high hilarity.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

This is enjoyable but thin, which is no doubt what was intended.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

This is his first screenplay since L.A. Story, yet you get the sense that Martin has lost some of the artistic aspiration he once brought to the movie business. This effort feels like it's just business.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

The best thing about Bowfinger is the way the script by Steve Martin is tooled to his own and Murphy's comic strengths.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

80

Murphy is able, with the help of writer and co-star Steve Martin, to create two completely different characters whose cumulative comic impact is overwhelming.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Entertaining, great actors but not a home run.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Mark Morris Film4

Hugely funny film that mixes knowing satire with winning stupidity, and has Martin and Murphy in form they have rarely managed in recent years.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

100

A showcase for wit.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound

63

Mr. Murphy chews the scenery every chance he gets and it recalls what made him such a star in the first place.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

79

Murphy is wonderful ... The plot is mechanical, clunky and boring.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

Preposterous and utterly self-absorbed, this has la-la land down to a tee.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

80

Just watch two of the still funniest guys in the country do what they do best, without a bad script to get in the way.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

75

You'll laugh 'til you stop!
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer

50

This all has the potential to become a sidesplitting caper. ... Unfortunately, only a few of the manic scenes work.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

50

[An] entertaining little comedy that should be forgiven for not living to its potential.
Full Review » 7 years ago
James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette

63

It's lively and frequently funny -- but why does it leave such a sour aftertaste?
Full Review » 9 years ago
Leonard Schwarz Palo Alto Weekly

88

Lest the movie get too saccharine (and it never does), Eddie Murphy is on hand to juice things up.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

90

Hilarious.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

75

The movie reaches giddy, cartoonish heights, even while it carefully dodges any chance to move beyond skin-deep.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kevin N. Laforest Montreal Film Journal

88

A wicked satire of the absurdity of the Los Angeles lifestyle.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Bob Graham San Francisco Chronicle

75

Martin the writer plants some wicked barbs in Hollywood's rear end about creative financing of movies and hoarding of profits, the art of the deal, hipper-than-thou attitudes and exploitation.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Charles Taylor Sight and Sound

Bowfinger bears the same relation to satire as reports of the weekend grosses do to journalism.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael W. Phillips, Jr. Goatdog's Movies

70

This movie is a wonderful satire of Hollywood.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jorge Avila Andrade Moviola

75

Divertido ejemplo de que cuando se quiere hacer reir a la gente, lo unico que se necesita es una buena historia y un par de buenos actores comicos
Full Review » 11 years ago