Coming to America: Critic Reviews

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Vincent Canby New York Times (Top Critic)

A screenplay that seems to have escaped its doctors before it was entirely well.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Hal Hinson Washington Post (Top Critic)

In Landis' hands, the film doesn't live up to even the meagerest of expectations.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

The main pleasure in America comes in the romancing of prince and pauper. But the comedy is a mere handmaiden.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

Starts on a bathroom joke, quickly followed by a gag about private parts, then wanders in search of something equally original for Eddie Murphy to do for another couple of hours.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

The director is ... rather distracted; John Landis seems to be browsing through the scenes rather than gobbling them down.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Common Sense Media Editors Common Sense Media

60

Silly, curse-happy '80s Eddie Murphy vehicle.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Bullz-Eye.com

80

Full Review » 2 years ago
Film4

The winning combination of Landis and Murphy redeems the very predictable storyline, which is chock-full of snappy one-liners and impressive caricatures by Murphy and Hall.
Full Review » 3 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

63

Murphy gives his sweetest, most touching, and most genuinely likable performance to date, playing a character who embraces society instead of holding it in contempt.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

70

very funny and shows Eddie Murphy in his prime
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jamie Gillies Apollo Guide

71

Not only a great comedic effort but Eddie Murphy's best romantic film as well.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

[Landis] takes a very specific joy in the act of moviemaking and calls attention to it, placing it at a level above the romantic story.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Eric Meyerson Filmcritic.com

80

so brilliant, it almost makes up for The Golden Child.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

Superb comic timing, a satirical edge, and Murphy's extraordinary gift for mimicry lift it right out of the trough of mediocrity to which it is all but consigned by its utterly predictable storyline.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Brad Laidman Film Threat

100

Eddie Murphy does everything in this movie successfully, which was probably a bad idea because it made him think that he could write and direct Harlem Nights...
Full Review » 6 years ago
Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Clint Morris Film Threat

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette

60

Murphy's last enjoyable film before a long slump
Full Review » 8 years ago
Eric Melin Lawrence.com

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS)

20

Full Review » 8 years ago
Randy Shulman Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

20

Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal

40

Full Review » 9 years ago