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CQ
United Artists / MGM
MPAA RATING: R for some nudity and language
Starring
Jeremy Davies,
Angela Lindvall,
Élodie Bouchez,
Gérard Depardieu,
Giancarlo Giannini,
Massimo Ghini,
Jason Schwartzman,
and
Billy Zane
Paris, 1969: The filming of a sci-fi movie set in the distant year 2001 is in trouble. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Roman Coppola
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Roman Coppola
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 10, 2002
Video: September 10, 2002
Theatrical: May 24, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
87 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Luxembourg / France / Italy |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
The film deserves some kind of honor for its campy originality, smart and funny dialogue, and provocative yet sensitive look at the making of a film circa 1969.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
A frothy, sexy, '60s delight with a movie lover's heart.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Exceptionally likable and affecting as well as entertaining.
80
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
May not make the splash it should; films about moviemaking rarely do. And that would be a shame, because the contrasts the director sets in motion and keeps playing against each other make an entertaining wrestling match.

80
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
It's a feel-good movie for people tired of paying to feel bad. Bring it on.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It may not be art, but it's vastly more entertaining than anything Coppola senior has done in far too long.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
CQ is a movie for movie-lovers, by a movie-lover: Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford and a successful commercial and video director in his own right, making a witty, whimsical feature debut.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Good-natured and fun, the Austin Powers silliness of the era shines through, and Coppola family art director Dean Tavoularis ("Apocalypse Now," "The Godfather" trilogy) makes the film -- and its kitschy film-within-the-film -- look consistently terrific.

70
Film Threat
Chris Gore
While I personally love this movie, I’m not sure how well received a film about a frustrated filmmaker seeking creative solutions in his personal life and work life is going to be to the average moviegoer.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Coppola, who has made clever music videos, including the one for Moby's ''Honey,'' clearly had a lot of fun detailing the mod cheesiness of this intergalactic period piece, though the satire would have been more ticklish if ''Austin Powers'' hadn't gotten there first.

63
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Coppola sure knows his late-'60s cinema and he's meticulous in reconstructing the style of the era.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
CQ has a modicum of IQ and a dash of style -- the jury's still out on the extent of the inheritance, but the kid clearly learned something at his pater'sknee.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
May have more enthusiasm and attitude than good story sense, but it, too, is the work of someone who might be at this game for a long time.
60
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
A certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents, bouncing along to the all-too-essential groovy soundtrack.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
It looks great -- thanks in large part to production designer Dean Tavoularis and Wes Anderson cinematographer Robert Yeoman -- but just as importantly, it looks like it's interesting. Ultimately, it's not, but that almost doesn't matter.

60
LA Weekly
John Powers
CQ is modest, especially for something bearing the grandiose family name, and it possesses both a tenderness and a quiet intelligence.

60
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works, but Coppola, along with his sister, Sofia, is a real filmmaker. It must be in the genes.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A triumph of art direction over narrative, but what art direction!

50
Boston Globe
Chris Fujiwara
Triumphs over its own trendiness only by being vapid and superficial.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Pretentious and self-indulgent -- those two words come to mind when considering CQ.

50
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
The result is stylish but awfully slim.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Coppola's satirical debut movie is too ambitious for its own good. The cast is good, though, and ambition isn't the worst fault a fledgling filmmaker can have.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A charming, spirited movie for cinephiles, or those who aspire to be. It's the kind of movie every kid in film school wanted to make but didn't have the father to produce.

30
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Endearing but pointless, at once cluttered and tinny, this film-dork fantasia suggests a shopping spree at a high-end vintage emporium underwritten by Daddy's blank check.

20
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Writer-director Roman Coppola is trying to capture a time he's too young to remember, when the French New Wave reinvigorated film art.

20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Roman Coppola's first film has sympathetic aims but is distressingly lacking in flair, style, wit or fun.


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