| 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.
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| 80 |
Salon.com
A frothy, sexy, '60s delight with a movie lover's heart.
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| 80 |
Wall Street Journal
Exceptionally likable and affecting as well as entertaining.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
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.
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| 80 |
New Times (L.A.)
It's a feel-good movie for people tired of paying to feel bad. Bring it on.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
It may not be art, but it's vastly more entertaining than anything Coppola senior has done in far too long.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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.
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| 70 |
Film Threat
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.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Coppola sure knows his late-'60s cinema and he's meticulous in reconstructing the style of the era.
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| 63 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
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.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
A certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents, bouncing along to the all-too-essential groovy soundtrack.
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| 60 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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.
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| 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.
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| 60 |
New York Magazine
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.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
A triumph of art direction over narrative, but what art direction!
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Chris Fujiwara
Triumphs over its own trendiness only by being vapid and superficial.
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| 50 |
ReelViews
Pretentious and self-indulgent -- those two words come to mind when considering CQ.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
The result is stylish but awfully slim.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
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.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
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.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
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.
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| 20 |
Rolling Stone
Writer-director Roman Coppola is trying to capture a time he's too young to remember, when the French New Wave reinvigorated film art.
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| 20 |
Variety
Roman Coppola's first film has sympathetic aims but is distressingly lacking in flair, style, wit or fun.
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