White Men Can't Jump (2023)

"A shallow and mostly unfunny nostalgia play."

"It is hard to think of a more awkward screen presence (than Harlow's)."

"The new WMCJ... is never particularly enlightening and is less funny."

"This version has little quirk and less spark."

"This White Men Can’t Jump... has no game."

"Sure, there's nothing new under the sun, but there's really nothing new here."

"There’s a distinct lack of energy and cohesion on the screen."

"The odd couple-dynamics provide occasional if predictable laughs..."

"This one may be more attuned to social concerns and economic realities, but it boils down to trite pieties and come from behind plot points."

"One of the easiest ways to defang White Men Can’t Jump, aside from hiring a director that can’t film basketball, is to replace the searing racial and economic tension of the early ‘90s with Kenya Barris’ exhausting (and exhausted) race-relations punchlines."

"There’s nary a moment when it doesn’t feel … unnecessary."

"While trying to make the original’s free-flowing, frequently surprising plot fit into a more conventional screenplay arc, Barris and Hall have sapped a lot of its vitality."

"Fails to recapture the energy of the first film... and is largely uninterested in utilising... (Walls and Harlow) except as delivery systems for exposition."