Top Five
This idea offers a series of events about the comedian's story, where that story begins when the comedian tries to stand up to him as a serious actor and there may be something different about that actor. When his fiancée talks about his wedding on her television show, there seems to be something quite different.
26 April 1961, Long Island, New York, USA
20 August 1936, Ponce, Puerto Rico
11 September 1970, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
March 21, 2017
Top Five gives us a glimpse of [Rock's] comic genius. Just a tad.
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 30, 2015
I honestly expected the movie to be funnier, but I did laugh out loud multiple times.
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.
December 12, 2014
For an ostensibly soul-deep movie like this to work, we need more than smirks and scowls.
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.
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 30, 2015
[An] overly self-referential comedy shot through with an uncomfortable dose of Serious Themes.
January 05, 2015
Chris Rock's Top Five is very funny -- no surprise there -- but it's also unexpectedly romantic.
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
