Joy Ride. Rated R for exuberant sexuality, bilingual foul language, brief nudity and liberal use of drugs and booze. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes. In theaters. Joy Ride. NYT Critic’s Pick.

It's a bike ride that's more than a workout. Meet the Philadelphia therapist behind a movement bringing Black women together, ...

Much ink has been spilled about the return of the raunchy comedy: The summer promised a hearty dose of R-rated, laugh-like-it's-2005 fun, starting with Jennifer Lawrence's "No Hard Feelings," then ...

In “Joy Ride,” queerness is in on the joke but is not itself the punchline. Advertisement. The story is tight, packed with one good plot twist — and one predictable one — and snappy dialogue.

Joy Ride may be reworking a formula, but it does so with disarming energy and verve, plus a level of savvy about Asian culture that we still rarely see in Hollywood movies.

Joy Ride follows four Asian-American friends on a trip to China, where grown adoptee Audrey (Ashley Park) is on a "grand adventure to find [her] birth mother." At her side is her childhood bestie ...

“Joy Ride” arrives courtesy of Seth Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures, with Adele Lim (co-writer of “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Raya and the Last Dragon”) making her feature directorial debut.

Review: ‘Joy Ride’ is a glorious, raunchy, gross-out comedy The plot — outlandish and sometimes contrived as it is — offers plenty of room for comic possibility ...

“Joy Ride” turns a bit sentimental when Audrey is persuaded to seek her birth mother. Hsu’s Kat is a semi-successful actress in Beijing about to marry a conservative Chinese actor.

Adele Lim’s raunchy comedy “Joy Ride” (2023) offers a refreshing departure from stereotypical representations of Asian American women, prompting questions around social expectations of race ...

The “Let’s do another ‘Bridesmaids’” energy is strong in “Joy Ride,” a road-trip comedy that peaks early and feels guilty of trying too hard thereafter. Built around a predominantly ...

In “Joy Ride,” Lim explores transnational adoptee identity and the Asian-American experience with specificity and humor, but she also doggedly chips away at insidious Asian and Asian-American ...