Top Five
It may be quite different with the comedian who is trying to change things. That story begins as the comedian tries to stand up to him as a serious actor when his fiancée talks about his wedding on her television show. His fiancée appears to be trying to remember the positive side of the comedian in her most famous program.
12 December 1971, Akron, Ohio, USA
6 May 1983, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
13 April 1987, New York City, New York, USA
1990, Zurich, Switzerland
25 June 1985, Denver, Colorado, USA
18 March 1977, Camden, New Jersey, USA
14 October 1987, Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
10 November 1968, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
29 April 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
11 December 1937, Columbus, Ohio, USA
7 August 2004, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 November 1955, New York City, New York, USA
24 April 1964, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
March 24, 2016
It's a familiar structure that Rock juggles well and fills with sharp, smart, and often hilarious take on the mid-life crisis of an artist caught between public expectations, private ambitions and anxieties, and professional compromises and commitments
December 30, 2015
I honestly expected the movie to be funnier, but I did laugh out loud multiple times.
December 30, 2015
[An] overly self-referential comedy shot through with an uncomfortable dose of Serious Themes.
June 07, 2016
He finds a cinematic approximation of his act: free-flowing, unpredictable, personal, spiced up with pop cultural references, political shout-outs, and a decidedly hip-hop energy, and above all else, funny as hell.
December 12, 2014
It doesn't always hit its mark, but even its misses feel personal and unself-conscious - a genuine reflection of Chris Rock, auteur.
March 21, 2017
Top Five gives us a glimpse of [Rock's] comic genius. Just a tad.
December 12, 2014
Like Rock's best stand-up shows, Top Five mixes the sweet with the salty, the naughty with the remarkably kind. It celebrates the darkly hilarious with the light of whip-smart observations.
January 05, 2015
As a director, Chris Rock makes a fine stand-up comic.
April 17, 2016
[Rock's] high notes are higher than ever, his penchant for uproarious comedy intact, but his cinematic voice remains inexplicably lost in the din.
December 14, 2014
A seriously funny, semi-autobiographical film that might be the most accomplished work Chris Rock has ever done for the big screen.
December 12, 2014
For an ostensibly soul-deep movie like this to work, we need more than smirks and scowls.
January 05, 2015
Chris Rock's Top Five is very funny -- no surprise there -- but it's also unexpectedly romantic.
