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04/26/07
Color Me Kubrick (2007)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:29
Rotten:28
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Colour Me Kubrick has a fascinating premise, but provides little insight into Kubrick and the man who impersonated him.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: For months Alan Conway, a perfect stranger, passed himself off as one of the greatest film directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick. Conway knew nothing of the filmmaker or his films, but this... [More]
Starring: John Malkovich, Honor Blackman, Bryan Dick, Leslie Phillips
Director: Brian W. Cook
Reviews for Color Me Kubrick
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03/31/07
Best appreciated as a rather amusing farce called The John Malkovich Show, the movie's every scene is anchored, then stolen, by the commanding thespian's Alan act.
05/01/06
There is a giddy pleasure in watching people, great and small, most who should know much better, fall over themselves to be film-flammed
03/21/07
A mean-spirited, trashy and intermittently funny film.
03/22/07
John Malkovich gets to have a field day as the slovenly, unappealing Conway ...
03/22/07
Relentlessly sordid, but John Malkovich's imaginatively outlandish performance is worth watching.
03/23/07
Even if the film is essentially a one-man show, a one-man show starring John Malkovich is bound to be really damn good.
03/26/07
One problem is that Malkovich gets free rein to be Malkovich, the often showy actor, rather than Conway, a humble London travel agent. It's a grandstanding performance that's more about hamminess than substance.
03/23/07
But cleverness aside, the film is so slight it practically vanishes before your eyes.
03/22/07
It's a truffle of a movie that may leave you feeling like you ate one too many purple chocolates, but secondary performances by Honor Blackman (remember the original "Avengers") and the ever-kooky Ken Russell add texture to the comic motif.
02/20/07
Without much insight into the self-dramatizing enigma of Conway, nor any representation of the solitary auteur he impersonated, the film becomes a repetitive series of small-scale con games played on cabdrivers, bar owners and wannabe stars.
03/22/07
The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes.
03/20/07
The film, with its relentlessly tight focus on its main character, winds down to nothingness.
03/23/07
Scarcely an insightful biographical portrait, Color Me Kubrick is still interesting, perhaps even intimidating, as a study of the way fandom can so readily be turned against itself.
03/23/07
Top CriticA doomed effort in satirizing society's obsession with celebrity, the film insists on a glib comedic tone that bars emotional investment in the tale; Malkovich gives a gutsy but ineffective performance as the travel agent who tried to pass as the director
02/18/07
John Malkovich has a blast, so will you!
03/26/07
[A] loopy lark...the sheer goofiness of the premise, together with its gossipy 'insider' nature [and] the take-no-prisoners performance of John Malkovich...carry it along.
03/26/07
You can almost see the invective splattering all over the storyline. And Malkovich's camping and vamping, however perversely entertaining it is to behold, can neutralize the venom only so much.
03/22/07
A ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich.
03/22/07
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