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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 5/10 |
It's simply not a movie, not as it stands. It's a five-minute demo reel stretched to feature length. Full Review |
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0.5/4 |
Any picture featuring a sped-up version of the "William Tell Overture" is so drunk on its own whimsy that it most likely sucks with a dedicated vigour. Full Review |
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 B+ |
Malkovich captures not only the nuttiness of Conway, with his smorgasbord of foreign-sounding accents, but also his pathos. Full Review |
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Conway looked and sounded nothing like Kubrick and didn’t even research his supposed identity. He’s clearly a fascinating character who deserves a better movie. Full Review |
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D |
Not only is there nothing there, the nothingness is a complete bore. When a film's highpoint is a soundtrack that relies heavily on other soundtracks, you've got problems. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The irony of Color Me Kubrick is that the visual tricks merely serve as a backdrop for Malkovich's inspired high-wire performance. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A little bit like a coloring book -- flip the pages and each is pretty much like the one before, escalating variations on the same scam, with Malkovich filling in the cartoonish shadings, and occasionally going way outside the lines. Full Review |
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3/6 |
It’s an impressive moving wax museum, certainly, but even metatextual follies eventually need a pulse. Full Review |
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3/5 |
This is a kicky little movie. Full Review |
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At best a kitschy Catch Me If You Can and at worst a tedious comedy. Full Review |
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C |
It literally only has one idea in its head, and when that idea runs dry, it's as lost as Conway is without his plethora of Kubrick masks. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Director Brian W. Cook should know that hopes are seldom high for movies that debut on DVD the same day they hit the multiplex. Full Review |
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B- |
Fans of John Malkovich will most appreciate Colour Me Kubrick. For the rest, this is an amusing little blip on the movie radar screen. Full Review |
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Even if the film is essentially a one-man show, a one-man show starring John Malkovich is bound to be really damn good. Full Review |
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3/5 |
John Malkovich has a blast, so will you! Full Review |
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B- |
[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. Full Review |
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B |
It's no 'Six Degrees of Separation' but Malkovich charms the audience as much as his marks, making this solid sit-com entertainment Full Review |
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