"Death at a Funeral" doesn't kill Chris Rock's film career, but it comes close. Strained, grim and forced, it tries to put him, Martin Lawrence and Tracy Morgan in situations that are dead on arrival.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Leaving a screening of Death at a Funeral, I stopped in the ladies room, where I overheard an insightful, pithy review of the comedy, which stars Chris Rock, and Martin Lawrence as brothers who learn ...