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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe best part is Jemaine Clement as Benjamin’s grandiose genre hero, Dr. Ronald Chevalier. Even if you love him on "Flight of the Conchords," you’ll be unprepared for his genius--and charisma.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckHas little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness.
- 40VarietyVarietyNapoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in Gentlemen Broncos, the latest oddball character portrait from one-trick helmer Jared Hess.
- 40Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearIt’s unfair to blame Hess solely for condescension comedy’s bad aftertaste--he’s not the only perpetrator--but his particular brand is the most graceless.
- Crammed with so much deliberate tackiness that it borders on exhausting self-parody.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceHess deserves credit, I suppose, for so effectively channeling his inner seven-year-old. Personally, I preferred spending two hours in the company of Spike Jonze's.
- 30The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisTiming, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos.
- Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels.
- 20New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanYep, Hess wrote and directed "Dynamite," and here's proof we shouldn't have rewarded him. The hollow "Broncos" is even more cruelly disdainful, designed primarily to scorn the pathetic lives within.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe audience may have bought the act in "Napoleon Dynamite." But this time, the act bombs.