Although the gimmick wears thin, the production holds up remarkably well because Martin delivers the funny goods with wry ease.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2021

What should have been a godsend for anyone who worships film noir (raising my hand here) proves instead to be a crushing disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 24, 2021

The absence of novelty is compensated by its original development. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019

The novelty value wears thin, and attention wanders as the plot turns grow more obscure. But there are enough outrageous gags to please the faithful.

| Nov 12, 2018

A parlor trick, but the kind -- an inquiring jester making his way through the ghosts of cinema's past -- that gets Godard at the Moviola to layer Histoire(s) together

| Sep 6, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2004

Hilarious and seamless!

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 2, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2004

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a thoroughly entertaining spoof of Hollywood private eye movies.

| Feb 4, 2004

Too clever for its own good when it should be worried about being funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 24, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2002

Mainly for the noir geeks and the Steve Martin fans -- and I'm both.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2002