Touch of Pink maintains a touch of artifice, which makes for a thin plot with a solid message: the unremitting advance of courage over prejudice, reason over ignorance, and love over fear.

| May 25, 2022

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A mildly amusing gay comedy, with the only novel point of Cary Grant serving as a spiritual mentor; the rest is formula.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 26, 2005

...more self-congratulatory than genuinely edgy, and the best reason to see it is MacLachlan's tidy impersonation.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 29, 2005

[It's] a blend of trite plot points and obnoxious characters, held together by the notion that you should be watching something else instead.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 12, 2005

Rashid struggles with tone and pacing ... but his characters are so vivid and the romance so sweet that we forgive him.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2004

A cute, ineffectual film that breaks absolutely no new ground but enjoys itself as it skips down the familiar paths.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 19, 2004

Kyle MacLachlan's robust impersonation of Cary Grant is good for a laugh, but its overuse is just one of the crimes against this joyless cross-cultural gay romance.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 8, 2004

A too-familiar tale.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2004

There are two crucial bits of miscasting, one bad, one good, both distracting.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 30, 2004

A gay romantic comedy so coyly inoffensive that it becomes offensive in its inoffensiveness.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Its plot is hackneyed and banal.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2004

An uncomfortable jumble of Harvey, Bend It Like Beckham and The Birdcage.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 3, 2004

Much of the problem with Touch of Pink rests with Mistry, whose nice guy appeal registers even less than it did in his previous starring vehicles, The Guru and The Mystic Masseur.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2004

While MacLachlan captures Grant's regal confidence, his overenunciation and hammy gestures lean more into caricature than imitation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2004

MacLachlan's strong jaw line and his valiant attempt to act so very Cary aren't enough to save this film.

| Aug 13, 2004

As much as it aspires to mimic the charm of old Cary Grant pictures, Touch of Pink is hardly worthy of comparison to even the least of Grant's films.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 13, 2004

The movie pretty much collapses upon the fulcrum of Kyle MacLachlan's Cary Grant.

| Aug 13, 2004

A harmless, lightweight romantic comedy that does everything that you expect it to.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2004