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Color Me Kubrick (2007)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:9
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Colour Me Kubrick has a fascinating premise, but provides little insight into Kubrick and the man who impersonated him.
Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $37,201
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
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Reviews for Color Me Kubrick
Top CriticNot 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.
04/01/07
Top CriticThe irony of Color Me Kubrick is that the visual tricks merely serve as a backdrop for Malkovich's inspired high-wire performance.
04/01/07
Top CriticAt best a kitschy Catch Me If You Can and at worst a tedious comedy.
03/31/07
Top CriticDirector Brian W. Cook should know that hopes are seldom high for movies that debut on DVD the same day they hit the multiplex.
03/31/07
Top CriticColour Me Kubrick is a somewhat fictionalized accounting of this amazing but true story. The filmmakers have wisely turned it into a comedy, and a wickedly entertaining one at that.
03/23/07
Top CriticDirector and co-writer Brian Cook was Kubrick's assistant director on The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut and he fills the film with subtle touches and sly in-jokes.
03/23/07
Top CriticGreat fun for the first 20 minutes but seems long at 86.
03/23/07
Top CriticOne 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
Top CriticColour Me Kubrick earns a place on the shelf where all the oddballs reside, defying us to come up with reasons to justify their idiosyncratic existences -- and perhaps not caring whether we do.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe movie never convinces us there's anyone there to expose, though, and Malkovich flits from scene to scene without ever anchoring Conway in a lasting reality.
03/23/07
Top CriticOnce the movie gets started, it doesn’t know where to go or how to end. It more or less repeats itself.
03/23/07
Top CriticScarcely 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 CriticWithout 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
Top CriticWriter Anthony Frewin and director Brian Cook uses Conway's unlikely saga to mount an appreciative send-up of a certain style of gay extravagance, with John Malkovich having a field day as Conway.
03/22/07
Top CriticA ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich.
03/22/07
Top CriticYou 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
Top CriticA mean-spirited, trashy and intermittently funny film.
03/22/07
Top CriticJohn Malkovich has one of the roles of his life, and he acts it up like a haughty gourmet who's just picked up a succulent treat.
03/22/07
Top CriticColor Me Kubrick is like a nice, deep, clear cocktail of ammonia on the rocks: bracing, comic, astonishing, all of which hide its poison center.
03/22/07
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