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The movie follows David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) as he is lured by a his crush and her mastermind friend to join one of the biggest bank heists in American history: the inside-job robbery of an armored car filled with $17 million in Loomis Fargo money.
11 May 1979, Laurel, Mississippi, USA
18 November 1968, Dallas, Texas, USA
6 March 1962, Rocky Mount, Virginia, USA
February 21, 2017
Not every gag lands, but those that do make this broad yet lovable schlub of a comedy worth a $3.99 online stream.September 30, 2016
The movie has been on ice awaiting release for over a year, owing to the bankruptcy of its studio. But some of the jokes were moldy long before that happened. Masterminds owes us our two hours back.September 30, 2016
Masterminds finds plenty of targets for its satirical jabs and lets them all off the hook.October 05, 2016
It's just smart people acting like dumb people in a dumb movie.September 30, 2016
What Masterminds lacks in sharp one-liners it more than makes up for in ridiculous slapstick.December 31, 2016
All of these actors and filmmakers will do better work in the future, but Masterminds won't be on the top of anyone's résumé.December 09, 2016
A comedy with a fairly linear structure in its plot and that entertains with good gags. [Full review in Spanish]January 01, 2017
There's some punchy play with comic timing and scattershot laughs, but the movie's too skittish, misfires in a hitman-subplot, and can't make us treasure its Most Wanted Dopes.January 17, 2017
A comedy that is entertaining thanks to its interpreters, but it ends up being more effective in its social analysis between white aristocracy and the new rich. [Full review in Spanish]September 30, 2016
Hess dives deeply into the ass crack of suburban North Carolina, finding lowbrow caricature courtesy his two wonderfully shameless lead actors, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.September 30, 2016
The subtext is all about class dispossession, but a movie in which a character is stupid enough to propose a big-time bank robbery so that his gang can make it into the news ("the big show") is pushing it.