Metacritic Movie Ratings
Next Day Air Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 90

  out of 100

  The New York TimesNathan Lee

  With a script that snaps, characters that pop, a blaze of streetwise attitude and enough firepower to pulverize a significant chunk of South Philadelphia, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection. Good things come in strange packages.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  A bloody screwball comedy, a film of high spirits. It tells a complicated story with acute timing and clarity, and gives us drug-dealing lowlifes who are almost poetic in their clockwork dialogue.

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• 50

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Next Day Air can't decide whether it's a broad stoner comedy or a gritty Tarantino-esque action flick. The humor is there, but violence brings the laughter to an abrupt halt.

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• 40

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  An altogether bumbling excuse for an action-comedy.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  There's a serious miscalculation when the lighthearted hijinks suddenly give way to a climactic scene of brutal violence.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  That's about all Next Day Air can muster by way of invention, trying to slap a new face on a gaggle of rote gestures in a vain attempt to cover its own uselessness. But no matter how big the guns it draws, every shot is a dud.

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• 25

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  If the movie doesn't even care about its characters, then how can we?

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