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Where's Marlowe?
Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 3 out of 11
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    This smart spoof of film noir and filmmaking is very clever and riotously funny.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Phoebe Flowers
    63
    Melding multiple genres, the movie is certainly funny, but the admirable, reckless energy that makes it worthwhile for much of the running time eventually peters out.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    63
    Belongs to an intellectually stimulating subgenre that examines the thin line between documentary maker and subject.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    58
    Attempts to do for "The Big Sleep"-type detective movie and film-noir genre what "Blair Witch" did for horror films.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    50
    Quickly assumes an appealing mockumentary style.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    50
    (Ferrer's) performance as the sensitive private dick borders on beatific as he stumbles about a nighttime Hollywood Boulevard waxing lyrical about "love, sex and betrayal."
  7. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    50
    This goofball comedy is easy to take and just as easy to leave alone--unless you develop an affection for the hapless characters, which isn't too hard to do.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    40
    The droll cast--especially Ferrer, who's exquisite as a tough-talking dunce--deserved something more fully realized than this.
  9. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    38
    Although Where's Marlowe abounds with many supposedly clever ideas, it's about as badly made as anything you'll see anywhere on television.
  10. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    38
    Spoof both of P.I.s and independent filmmakers is languidly paced and not very funny.
  11. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Moira Macdonald
    30
    Stretched too thin, looks cheap, and can't quite go the distance.
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