The D Train - Movie Reviews (2025)

...a briskly-paced endeavor that ultimately fares best in its fun, engaging opening and closing stretches...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 20, 2023

This is a gloomy story of a disturbed person.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 15, 2020

The D Train is not a perfect film by any stretch, but it's an extremely bold take on a pretty standard story, done in a way that would not have been possible as recent as just a few years ago.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2020

This well intentioned twist on Judd Apatow bro humor takes time to explore the hefty consequences of immaturity and stunted growth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2019

Once it gets going, The D Train escapes its mundane synopsis with some genuine freshness: interesting, odd, entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

THE D TRAIN has a lot of panache and a solid vision, but just can't quite stick the landing in the film's final minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 14, 2018

A directorial debut, which accounts for a tone that is all over the shop, but some wry smiles to be had, particularly from Marsden strutting his stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

"The D Train" isn't your usual, raucous Jack Black vehicle. Rather, there's an unexpected depth of drama in this weird little film.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2018

Check out "The D Train" for an unlikely comedy that's a bit over the top, but truly entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2018

A familiar story told in a fresh way. It's about growing up, letting go, and about deceiving appearances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2018

There are some lapses in taste along the way but Black and Marsden both impress in an undeniably original film that defies convention and offers almost as much drama as comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2017

... what you have is a surprisingly heartfelt and very good relationship drama trapped in the premise of a bro comedy.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2017

Unexpected developments ensue, including actual hilarity, amazing [Jack] Black-[James] Marsden chemistry, and a scorched-earth subversion of the default homophobia that's otherwise so common to movies like this.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2017

Black and Marsden are truly great in these roles. The script is dumb and has them doing idiotic, inexplicable things, but the characters they embody have serious depth and range.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2017

Refreshingly subversive and featuring a never-better Jack Black, The D Train takes bromantic comedies to their natural conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2016

A disappointing dark comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 12, 2016

The introduction of too many ill-conceived sub-plots fails to enhance or execute the essential tenets of the narrative, only serving to detract and distract from the film's overall philosophy, lacking the sharp, subversive edge required for black comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 12, 2016

As fresh and well meaning as it is problematic, taking a new comedy staple - the bromance - and flipping it upside down.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 9, 2016

Woefully bad feint at a dramedy in which everyone agrees the 'hero' is a terrible excuse for a man... and he gets the message that he is awesome anyway.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2016

The D Train is an original take on the clichéd reunion story we've seen so many times before, but it's not for the faint of heart. This is an intelligent, dark comedy with a hard R rating.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2015