Chris Rock's Top Five ponders love, race, sex, and celebrity.
by J.R. Jones
In Top Five, Chris Rock plays a stand-up comedian who's graduated into movies with a moronic franchise in which he wears a bear costume; after three installments, he's decided to make a sober historical drama about the Haitian slave rebellion of 1791. We're supposed to read this as autobiographical, I guess, yet in Rock's own filmmaking ventures, he's proved himself fully capable of hitting a line drive down the middle, writing movies that are funny but also smart and socially engaged.…[ Read more ]