If Beverly Hills Cop was made in 2024, it would take 45 minutes before Foley gets to California. The storytelling and the way it unfolds is so economical that it’s surprising that filmmakers don’t make movies like this nowadays...

Full Review | Aug 9, 2024

Beverly Hills Cop is a classic buddy cop comedy. It is essential viewing for anyone exploring Murphy’s career. The sequels, including the new one, never quite hit the highs of Brest’s original 1984 film.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2024

Murphy used a pretty well-worn format for its time as his launchpad for superstardom, also delivering one of his great performances in the process.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2024

Despite the charisma injected by Eddie Murphy as the cunning and talkative cop, I find it to be an action comedy that becomes boring and dissolves its police plot into a succession of predictable clichés. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 8, 2024

Murphy uses the fish-out-of-water concept to his advantage. This gives him ample room to strike an amusing contrast between his fast-talking personality and John Ashton and Judge Reinhold, who play them straight as by-the-book cops from Beverly Hills.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Beverly Hills Cop suffers from its tendency to prioritize Murphy's comedic gifts over the narrative, but that element has enabled the film to stand the test of time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2024

Much of the film’s appeal stems from the sizzling energy and sharp dialogue, a lot of which was improvised on the spot by Murphy.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2023

'Beverly Hills Cop' works as an action movie supported by Eddie Murphys comedic timing and inexhaustible charisma. Reinholds goofy but endearing Det. Rosewood also provides heart and hearty laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2022

It's a good detective story. It's got a great bad guy. It's got a motivated hero... it's a fun movie that moves... and doesn't stop.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 1, 2021

Murphy is a one-man show backed up by his supporting cast - especially Reinhold and Ashton - who allow Murphy the freedom to do what he does best.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 1, 2020

Although Murphy is a one-man-army comedian, the chemistry between Foley, Rosewood, and Taggart truly makes the movie hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 31, 2020

...a work of racial subversion that's both hilarious and cathartic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2020

The vastly entertaining Beverly Hills Cop remains noteworthy as the film that best makes use of Eddie Murphy's explosive comic instincts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 19, 2020

An exceptional entry in the '80s comedy/action genre...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 22, 2019

It has a creamy surface and junky insides.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2019

Away from Murphy's iconic comic status and star quality at the time, he was a limited dramatic actor - making almost untenable the tauter moments of the plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2018

(PODCAST) Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley is a gay cop out to solve the murder of an ex-lover. 20 years of hindsight shows Axel Foley to be a great gay icon of '80s pop culture.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2017

This lickety-split action comedy is distinguished by the wry, character-conscious direction of Martin Brest, who coaxes a silver-bullet performance from star Eddie Murphy that's practically criminal in its accuracy.

Full Review | Dec 5, 2016

By no means great cinema... but it is a great popcorn movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 25, 2014

Fast, enjoyable, often witty action-comedy that made Eddie Muprphy the most popular movie star in the country.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 10, 2012