• Starring: Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Zac Efron
  • Summary: Based in real theatrical history, Me and Orson Welles is a romantic, coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in "Julius Caesar" as it's being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937. (Freestyle Releasing) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 30
  2. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. 100
    The impersonation of Welles by Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles is the centerpiece of the film, and from it, all else flows. We can almost accept that this is the Great Man.
  2. Christian McKay who, as Orson Welles in Me and Orson Welles"gives what I believe is the most exact and uncanny screen portrayal of an historical figure, ever.
  3. Surprisingly conventional by director Richard Linklater's standards, this pleasant, low-key dramedy is most memorable for the discovery of co-star Christian McKay.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. RichardE.
    9
    This might not be true for users, but some of the professional critics seem to have missed the irony of Welles's anti-fascist _Caesar_ being staged by a guy who gleeful acted like an autocrat. Maybe too many Americans accept the Romantic idea of the director as The Artist as Hero and allow him — and maybe her, if women get the chance — to impose his will on underlings. There's a fair chance Shakespeare's company was more democratic in productions, with the "demos" probably limited to the share-holders, but at least potentially there. I'm not sure auteurs = progress. The movie raised the issue, and was a lot of fun to watch. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. AmyB
    9
    Watch this movie just for Christian MacKay, who plays a demented Orson Welles that will shock you.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. WilsonS.
    5
    Too self-consciously a period piece, but pleasant enough.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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