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

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

| 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

How can [Rashid's] admittedly playful anti-Hollywood fantasy theme stick, when the movie itself is so saturated in big-studio values, fantasies and hokum and shot in a lower-budget approximation of the 1960s Hollywood style?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 12, 2004

Pleasant but predictable comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2004

Could have made more of its quirks, but for all its sincerity, it's just another banal coming-out movie.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 5, 2004

Ian Iqbal Rashid's movie, flawed as it is, works precisely because of its fantasy elements.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2004

There are hundreds of reasons for and possibilities in reupholstering romantic comedies with a queer eye, but the movies like Touch of Pink are too busy teaching feel-good lessons to even try.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2004

A true romantic comedy, closely following the formula of the Cary Grant/Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies of the late '50s and early '60s, Touch Of Pink relies more on witty dialogue and an underlying current of irony than on plot twists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2004

The story is tired, the comedy forced and the mother's larger-than-life quirks are an acquired taste.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 16, 2004

A clever and big- hearted gay screwball comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2004

Amuses and delights far more than it fails to surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2004

The only real touch of class in the rickety little romantic comedy is Kyle MacLachlan's dead-on impersonation of Cary Grant's ghost.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 15, 2004

It takes a while for him to find the right pace and rhythm, but the overall result is diverting yet provocative, and Rashid is as strong a director of actors as he is a writer capable of creating complex, multifaceted characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 15, 2004

For all the predictable devices ... as well as a plot that goes right, left, and idles on the train tracks, there's really enough going on here to sustain the film, even without Cary Grant. So he's a bonus, and a delightful one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 15, 2004