Spy

Susan Cooper doesn’t just find herself in crazy situations and resort to random zany behavior. She’s a strong, capable woman who e...

McCarthy is not a one-size-fits-all talent; she needs the right vehicle. Here, Feig has given her precisely the right vehicle, and she shines.

McCarthy and director Paul Feig, are a dynamite team, with Feig’s script a bonanza of zingers and femcentric subtext.

It’s a globe-trotting tour of McCarthy’s talent, throughout which she’s practically always kicking butt. Who was that double...

Feig once again demonstrates his shrewd eye for mixing talent, finding a (mis)match made in action-comedy heaven in regular collaborator Melis...

The car chases might wear out their welcome, but the plot twists are neat, and the physical comedy robust and intense.

[It made] the audience howl so loudly that it was hard to hear some of the lines.

McCarthy has much more to discover about herself as an actor and an avatar and a cultural signifier, and I hope she doesn’t get tra...

Melissa McCarthy comes into her own as a comic star in Spy, stepping out from recent supporting – and co-headlining roles to become the b...

"Spy" may not be a great movie, but it is great fun. And at times it will have you wondering if there’s that much of a difference.

McCarthy and Byrne’s scenes together are cruelly hilarious, with the kind of no-holds-barred insult humor that makes you instinctively drop y...

Feig keeps throwing so much stuff at you – gross-out gags, chases, brutal violence, not to mention actors working their heads off – that...

In Spy, she’s playing a caricature that is almost a complete character. The movie isn’t out to humiliate her. It wants to prop up ...

Feig draws out McCarthy’s best, and she’s up to the challenge, whether it’s expressing tenderness and anger or slapsticking her w...

Spy is one of the most genial and affectionate spoofs since the Star Trek satire Galaxy Quest, yet it generates belly laughs that are closer to Mel...

Finally, after the promise shown in "Bridesmaids" but sold short since by weak scripts in films like "Tammy" and "Identity Thief," Melissa McCarthy...

[N]o one is going to upstage Melissa McCarthy without a fight

McCarthy excels at portraying Feig’s fresh and fleshed-out Susan, just a regular woman who fights to be taken seriously by her superiors...

This is McCarthy’s show all the way, and you sense that many of her best lines weren’t in the script, writer-director Feig having the c...

As seen in previous films, McCarthy works best with others and Feig here provides a fine array of foils.

If a Spy sequel isn’t already in the works, they better get cracking. Nefarious terrorists and numskull guys await.

On her own, Melissa McCarthy is hilarious. So is Rose Byrne. Together, they’re spectacularly funny.

Rare is the broad mainstream comedy that can goof on its bigger-budget Hollywood siblings while providing a few moments of sincere uplift.

The girl-power angle is enough of a twist to make the spy spoof feel newish.

Melissa McCarthy doesn’t just adopt guises to fool the bad guys in "Spy." Part of what makes the action comedy such a loopy blast is the...

[It] does have its moments, and it does have McCarthy. And while it’s not worth much more than a rent, it does make us look forward to w...

Empowering but uneven.

The intel is in: Melissa McCarthy can carry a comedy. Specifically, "Spy."

It’s an entertaining piece of silliness, though it looks like a decision has been made to balance out the female star with some weirdly...

Generously cast, sharply scripted and often vigorously improvised.

Although this fish-out-of-water scenario might sound over-familiar, both the humour and action here are startling and visceral …

Everyone involved seems to have had a good time with "Spy," and so will the audience.

Spy is actually quite funny. It even proves itself to be in the same league with the first two films in Feig’s loose comic trilogy, Bridesmai...

The busy, silly script allows Ms. McCarthy to be her own best sidekick, in effect an entire sketch-comedy troupe unto herself.

Spy is a smart and uplifting film – one that’s finally worthy of Melissa McCarthy’s comedic genius.

It’s the sustained, full-bodied mania of Melissa McCarthy’s performance that anchors the film’s many winning blind-alley gags.

Feig is great at writing big, obvious gags that nonetheless succeed. It made me think I was in for a good time – and Spy is definitely that.

Feig’s cheerfully feminist script makes only as much sense as it absolutely must, while providing McCarthy with chances to crack wise, show v...

Put the woman in any damn thing she pleases. She’s that good.

Spy is many things: A clever spoof. A chance for Melissa McCarthy and her co-stars to strut their comedic chops. An international romp. It’s...

Spy is a call to arms for the cowed, and a riotous skewering of the workplace kings

The fun of "Spy" comes in watching the right actors mess with their own images, blithely.

Spy is awfully funny, mostly at the expense of its men.

At its core, this action-packed, globe-trotting, gender-switched Bond spoof is about lookism.

It is time to celebrate. Melissa McCarthy finally has the movie role she deserves.

Melissa McCarthy gets the funniest, most versatile and sustained comic showcase of her movie career in this deliriously entertaining action-comedy.

Feig keeps his Spy machinery cranking so smoothly that nothing said or done feels as outrageous as, in fact, it is. The truth serum Spy drops into...

Spy lampoons sexism without abandoning sex-a tough tone for a comedy to strike but one that Feig and McCarthy manage to accomplish with both a sens...

As McCarthy vehicles go, Spy is aggressively mid-range and has too many miles on the clock, but it chugs along entertainingly.

The principal scene-stealer turns out to be Australia’s Rose Byrne. She delivers a performance composed of a series of small comic gems produ...

Quite apart from being a raucously funny comedy, it could be the most significant feminist film of the year. This Miss Moneypenny could be wor...

This is a different sort of comedy that more or less succeeds on its own terms, despite that fact that you find yourself rooting for the post...

Melissa McCarthy shines in this clever action-comedy showcase provided by the writer and director Paul Feig, but the movie’s tightly contrive...

A breezy, enjoyable comedy, and an ideal vehicle for the endearing McCarthy.

An action-comedy that takes the bankrupt Bond genre out for a fresh and subversive airing.

One part parody, one part thriller, one part lethal satire of movie sexism.