Critic Reviews
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TV Guide
This smart spoof of film noir and filmmaking is very clever and riotously funny.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
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.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Belongs to an intellectually stimulating subgenre that examines the thin line between documentary maker and subject.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Attempts to do for "The Big Sleep"-type detective movie and film-noir genre what "Blair Witch" did for horror films.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
(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."
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Quickly assumes an appealing mockumentary style.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
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.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
The droll cast--especially Ferrer, who's exquisite as a tough-talking dunce--deserved something more fully realized than this.
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| 38 |
San Francisco Examiner
Spoof both of P.I.s and independent filmmakers is languidly paced and not very funny.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Although Where's Marlowe abounds with many supposedly clever ideas, it's about as badly made as anything you'll see anywhere on television.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Moira Macdonald
Stretched too thin, looks cheap, and can't quite go the distance.
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