…even if it proved to be too much of an insider’s joke for viewers, Mindhorn is still an engaging comic creation, a pleaure in pleather from Simon Farnaby’s fertile imagination…

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2024

The second-funniest comedy ever filmed on The Isle of Man.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2022

Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh is inexhaustibly great...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2021

The film is faultless and it's a great to see such a brilliantly assembled cast. Comedy is alive and well in the UK.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 4, 2020

Mindhorn starts off very obviously deconstructed... But from there, the film - and Thorncroft himself - manage, through struggle and toil, to reconstruct the Mindhorn identity.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2019

Mindhorn's ludicrous sense of humor, often trivial treatment of its own story, and throwback visuals might prove offputtingly weird for some, but for anyone willing to go with its flow, it's the funniest film of 2017...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2019

Calling all cars: genuinely funny British comedy on the loose, approach with enthusiasm.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It's very funny, features surprising cameos from Kenneth Branagh and Simon Callow, and has a running gag about John Nettles, who, of course, played that other island detective, Bergerac.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2017

As a comedy, it's laugh out loud funny, as a homage to more innocent TV days it's enormous fun and it even manages the odd moment of pathos.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 18, 2017

Mindhorn, on the whole, isn't much of a humorous story. Indeed, it functions almost as a warning against the dangers of unchecked nostalgia, disguising a rather sad story with the veneer of broad comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.3/10 | May 31, 2017

Campy lowbrow comedy has frequent cursing, drugs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2017

Mindhorn is a solid, silly romp that offers steady laughs and plenty of cringe-inducing awkward moments in the style of The Office.

Full Review | May 17, 2017

This is a bravely unflattering and deft performance by Barratt, who injects a delicate balance of resilience, sadness and resentment into Thorncroft while still making us root for him as the ignominies mount up.

Full Review | May 11, 2017

The design looks suitably cheap and the film's one joke is milked relentlessly, albeit with energy, conviction, and occasionally laughter.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2017

[It] may be inconsistent, but there are enough comic high points, mixed in with just enough pathos, to make Mindhorn worth seeking out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2017

Barratt is perfect in the role and the film will especially (but not exclusively) amuse people familiar with 1980s cop shows, via Alan Partridge.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2017

A likeable but toothless nostalgia trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2017

The plot can't quite generate enough intrigue or tension to make the picture feel like much more than a one-joke movie, albeit a very funny one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2017

Mindhorn keeps the laughs coming, even while giving the impression of being a 30-minute TV sketch stretched out to a 90-minute feature.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2017

It's very silly, and very funny, and Steve Coogan, Kenneth Branagh and Simon Callow give their all in hammy cameos.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2017