Sammie Purcell
Rough Draft Atlanta
Jul 21, 2025
It’s not that “Incoming” lacks originality, necessarily, but rather that it goes through the motions in a fairly lackluster fashion.
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Tim Cogshell
FilmWeek (LAist)
Sep 16, 2024
This movie's great. It was great in 1976, in 1981, and kids who like these kinds of movies are going to love this movie.
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Dustin Rowles
Pajiba
Sep 5, 2024
It’s a movie so thoroughly bland and mediocre that the zing of Miracle Whip could crush it.
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Michael Cook
KLRT-TV
Sep 2, 2024
4/10
It felt like they took every 1980's comedy trope & tried to stuff it into this movie and threw in a sprinkle of Superbad along the way. It's not funny and you've seen it before.
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Tatat Bunnag
Bangkok Post
Sep 2, 2024
Incoming is unfortunately a dissatisfing addition to Netflix's catalogue of high school comedies. It struggles to find its footing, relying too heavily on things we've already seen before...
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Jayne Nelson
Radio Times
Aug 30, 2024
2/5
While it's possible to forgive the film's puerile mess of scatological humour, Incoming's creepy misogyny simply doesn't belong...
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Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Aug 30, 2024
C-
Unfunny teen comedy.
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Jennifer Green
Common Sense Media
Aug 28, 2024
The end result just isn't as funny or as risqué as it hopes.
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Aaron Neuwirth
We Live Entertainment
Aug 28, 2024
4/10
Not every movie asks for much, and this one is indeed full of a lot of dumb stuff. That said, it had a few laughs I appreciated.
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Kristen Maldonado
Pop Culture Planet
Aug 27, 2024
Eddie and Connor are the highlight of the film as they get caught up in chaos alongside the most popular girl in school. Raunchy and hilarious, Incoming is anchored by a solid main cast as they learn one night can change everything.
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Tomris Laffly
RogerEbert.com
Aug 27, 2024
3/4
[T]he Chernins’ film is one that neither panders in an overtly preachy manner, nor lets its players off the hook easily. In this raunchy little escapade, actions have consequences.
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Shawn Edwards
Fox 4 Kansas City
Aug 27, 2024
3/5
This raunchy high school drama has its moments...definitely qualifies as a guilty pleasure.
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Chris Gallardo
Tell-Tale TV
Aug 26, 2024
3.5/5
Even though it may have the usual genre elements and follow traditional narrative points, this film stands out with so many things that just click together. For example, Incoming‘s charming main cast simply brings this film’s joy to life.
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Matt Donato
Collider
Aug 26, 2024
4/10
Incoming isn't the next Superbad — it's just super bad.
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Matt Pais
MattPais.com
Aug 24, 2024
C-
An 81-minute knockoff preaching the importance of being yourself while doing nothing to forge an identity of its own.
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Jason Flatt
But Why Tho?
Aug 24, 2024
2.5/10
Maybe this movie would have been fine in the Superbad era. But today? It’s just offensive. It’s not funny, and depicting high school like this is not okay.
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Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
Aug 24, 2024
2/4
Some of the things people do in the cheerfully gross movie range from morally questionable to flat-out criminal.
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John Serba
Decider
Aug 23, 2024
There are a few instances of viable comedy – a clever line here, a passing bit there – but ultimately, the laugh-to-nausea ratio is way out of whack.
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Adrian Horton
Guardian
Aug 23, 2024
2/5
Though Incoming has a decent handle on the raucous momentum of a high school party and the crass dialect of freshman boys, the film has the consistently distracting sheen of a made-for-streaming film, making for cheap comparison to its inspirations.
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J. Kim Murphy
Variety
Aug 23, 2024
The Chernins manage a jaunty pace that energizes these familiar ingredients, more in the gag department than in the film’s superficial dramatic components.
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