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Mike Epps has 32 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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School Dance
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

The Underdoggs
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

Troop Zero
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

Dolemite Is My Name
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Netflix · Included

The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Prime Video · Included

Next Friday
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

High schooler Jason has found his dream girl—the gorgeous Anastacia. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t know he exists. If he can win a spot on the school’s hottest dance crew, Jason might have a shot. But before he does, he’ll have to overcome his battle-ax of a mother, survive Anastacia’s gangsta brother, and pass the crew’s initiation—in this fresh, sexy, and outrageously funny comedy.
Dir. Nick Cannon · With Patrick Warburton, Wilmer Valderrama, Efren Ramirez

As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.
Dir. Alexander Witt · With Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr

Jaycen 'Two Js' Jennings is a washed-up former pro football star who has hit rock bottom. When sentenced to community service coaching the Underdoggs, an unruly pee-wee football team in his hometown, he sees it mostly as an opportunity to rebuild his public image. But in the process, he may just turn his life around and rediscover his love of the game.
Dir. Charles Stone III · With Snoop Dogg, Tika Sumpter, Elias Ferguson

In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime and beyond.
Dir. Bertie, Bert · With Mckenna Grace, Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Shad Moss, Brandon T. Jackson, Chi McBride

The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
Dir. Craig Brewer · With Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.
Dir. Joe Talbot · With Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan

A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.
Dir. Steve Carr · With Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce

A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school.
Dir. Dylan C. Brown · With Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Mike Epps

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
Dir. Kasi Lemmons · With Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee

Craig and his cousin Day-Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.
Dir. Marcus Raboy · With Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon

Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
Dir. Jesse Dylan · With Method Man, Redman, Obba Babatundé

Kenya McQueen thought she had it all: a successful career, good friends and family. There was just one thing she didn't have under control: her love life. All that changes when she meets sexy, free-spirited Brian Kelly. But when her ideal man arrives on the scene, Kenya must decide between the relationship everyone expects and the romance no one expected.
Dir. Sanaa Hamri · With Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Blair Underwood

Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman who is believed to be Floyd's daughter, accompanies them as a new singer.
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sharon Leal

This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.
Dir. Todd Phillips · With Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.
Dir. Peter Billingsley · With Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld, Bill Paxton
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Martin Lawrence, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery

Bounty hunter Bucum Jackson teams with the small-time con artist, Reggie Wright, that he is pursuing, in an attempt to locate a missing stash of diamonds and a lottery ticket worth millions of dollars. Bucum and Reggie find themselves in a race to the finish as they embark on an unlikely partnership that should -- when all is said and done -- prove beneficial to them both.
Dir. Kevin Bray · With Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Eva Mendes
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
Dir. Dee Rees · With Queen Latifah, Mo'Nique, Mike Epps
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
Dir. Salim Akil · With Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, Angela Bassett

Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wants: a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya takes her assertions of independence a step further and decides to travel to Africa for inspiration and returns with a fiancé who is not quite what he seems.
Dir. Alfons Adetuyi · With Amber Stevens West, Keith David, Lyriq Bent

Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his aunt's final wish -- to create a local choir.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Beyoncé, Mike Epps

Landing in jail for a petty theft crime, Alvin finds himself sharing a cell with John Jaster, the incarcerated half of the pair of high-tech thieves responsible for the missing gold. His partner, Bristol, is still at large. Alvin wants only to get out of prison and start fresh with his girlfriend, Lisa, and when the Feds, led by U.S. Treasury investigator Clenteen, set him loose on a sketchy deal, he thinks his luck has changed. Alvin has his freedom and the Feds have found their bait.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Robert Pastorelli
Musical prodigy, Sparkle struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother, she tries to balance a new romance with music manager Stix while dealing with the unexpected challenges her new life will bring as she and her two sisters strive to become a dynamic singing group during the Motown-era.
Dir. Salim Akil · With Jordin Sparks, Whitney Houston, Derek Luke
Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million.
Dir. Erik White · With Shad Moss, Brandon T. Jackson, Naturi Naughton

A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
Dir. Scott Zabielski · With Andrew Bachelor, Kat Graham, Terry Crews
After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners.
Dir. Matthew O'Callaghan · With Joel McHale, Mike Epps, Cody Cameron

When his fiancee is kidnapped by human traffickers, Roman and his ex-military brothers set out to track her down and save her before it is too late. Along the way, Roman teams up with Avery, a cop investigating human trafficking and fighting the corrupt bureaucracy that has harmful intentions.
Dir. Brett Donowho · With Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Shawn Ashmore

Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes ten people's lives forever.
Dir. Benny Boom · With Yasmin Deliz, Donald Faison, Yasiin Bey

Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.
Dir. SJ Clarkson · With Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced
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