43
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis Harvey[A] thoroughly ingratiating, touchingly heartfelt comedy.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSan Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisFourth Man Out is a coming-out tale with well-worn themes, but its blue-collar spin and appealing cast give it a charm that’s hard to resist.
- 70The New York TimesHelen T. VerongosThe New York TimesHelen T. VerongosThe director, Andrew Nackman, in making a super-mainstream film, leans so far toward the feel-good end of the spectrum that he forgoes the opportunity to make something that is more real, more fraught, more complex.
- 40TheWrapInkoo KangTheWrapInkoo KangDespite arriving a decade too late, there’s a version of the small-town coming-out comedy 4th Man Out...that could feel relevant. But first-time director Andrew Nackman’s emotionally shallow, vaguely misogynistic take isn’t it.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshOld stereotypes are trotted out for humor's sake, and it's not a question of offensiveness, just that the jokes feel 10 years old.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyA gay auto mechanic comes out to his straight buddies in Fourth Man Out, but the shortage of dramatic texture, psychological insight or credible sexual tension in this toothless brom-com means he might as well be telling them he has a cold.
- 0Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayIt's a bizarre and retrograde spectacle, as clueless and incurious about friendship as it is about the rudiments of composition and screenwriting