Malkovich captures not only the nuttiness of Conway, with his smorgasbord of foreign-sounding accents, but also his pathos.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 9, 2007

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.

| Original Score: D | Apr 1, 2007

The irony of Color Me Kubrick is that the visual tricks merely serve as a backdrop for Malkovich's inspired high-wire performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2007

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 | Original Score: C | Mar 31, 2007

At best a kitschy Catch Me If You Can and at worst a tedious comedy.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2007

It's an impressive moving wax museum, certainly, but even metatextual follies eventually need a pulse.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Mar 31, 2007

This is a kicky little movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2007

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 | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2007

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 | Mar 26, 2007

Malkovich's performance, and the irresistible concept of an anonymous man dining out on a false identity, carries the film along giddily, and Cook wisely keeps Color Me Kubrick short and deliciously tart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Colour 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Great fun for the first 20 minutes but seems long at 86.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007

The 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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Once the movie gets started, it doesn't know where to go or how to end. It more or less repeats itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2007

The film is an odd duck, a staccato-like examination of fame, celebrity and the absurd obsession with both, moving in fits and spurts to a meandering cadence of its own peculiarly unique design.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2007

Writer 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.

| Mar 22, 2007

A ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 22, 2007