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Color Me Kubrick

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Foreign
Written by: Anthony Frewin (story)
Directed by: Brian W. Cook
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 23, 2007
DVD: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 86 minutes, Color
Origin: UK / France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring John Malkovich, Marisa Berenson, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, and Terence Rigby
John Malkovich stars as the notorious Stanley Kubrick imposter Alan Conway in Color Me Kubrick.
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Color Me Kubrick is a far more modest movie, but in some ways is more successful than "The Hoax" in conveying how deeply people want to believe something is true against all evidence.
Read Full Review >Variety Lisa Nesselson
A sly, enormously entertaining romp based on the antics of real-life Brit conman Alan Conway who rooked his way around '90s London posing as Stanley Kubrick.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Color Me Kubrick is like a nice, deep, clear cocktail of ammonia on the rocks: bracing, comic, astonishing, all of which hide its poison center.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
In Color Me Kubrick, John Malkovich has one of the roles of his life, and he acts it up like a haughty gourmet who's just picked up a succulent treat.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
The filmmakers have wisely turned it into a comedy, and a wickedly entertaining one at that.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Ed Gonzalez
Scarcely an insightful biographical portrait, Color Me Kubrick is still interesting, perhaps even intimidating, as a study of the way fandom can so readily be turned against itself.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Even if it doesn't add up to more than a fitfully amusing collection of comic sketches, Color Me Kubrick is a platform for John Malkovich to burst into lurid purple flame.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This 2005 British feature by writer Anthony Frewin and director Brian Cook, both former Kubrick assistants, uses Conway's unlikely saga to mount an appreciative send-up of a certain style of gay extravagance.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
A playground for Malkovich – enjoyable enough but not terribly deep.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's entertaining if not exactly enlightening.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Color Me Kubrick digs all sorts of devilish ironies out of this "true...ish story," and it's a fine dark farce before turning sad and, worse, monotonous. The con wears off before the movie does, but while it's in the air, "Kubrick" spins with bogus cheer.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
Best appreciated as a rather amusing farce called The John Malkovich Show, the movie's every scene is anchored, then stolen, by the commanding thespian's Alan act.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Great fun for the first 20 minutes - which include Kubrickian tracking shots and music from "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange" - but seems long at 86.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
The film makes funny use of music (particularly Lionel Richie's "Hello") and excellent use of Malkovich, but it literally only has one idea in its head, and when that idea runs dry, it's as lost as Conway is without his plethora of Kubrick masks.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
If you can't watch John Malkovich being John Malkovich, it's still a kick watching him play Alan Conway, a gay Brit who pretended to be the legendary and reclusive director Stanley Kubrick during the 1990s.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nathan Lee
I find it hard to believe that Conway bamboozled half of London simply by announcing his name, and it's regrettable that the filmmakers premise their picture on such improbable gullibility. The real Conway was assuredly slier than his bio-pic incarnation; he ought to have been played by Sacha Baron Cohen.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes. You could use it, "A Clockwork Orange" style, as aversion therapy for seemingly incorrigible con artists.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Director Cook and screenwriter Anthony Frewin were both intimates of the real Kubrick, which I guess counts for something. But for what, exactly? Does it uniquely qualify them to make a mean-spirited, trashy and intermittently funny film about a guy who wasn't Kubrick?
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
At best a kitschy "Catch Me If You Can" and at worst a tedious comedy that grows more tiresome by every self-consciously irreverent minute.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Byron gave it an8:
Malkovich stretches here fun to watch.
Matthew E. gave it a6:
Malkovich is one of my favorite actors and you can tell he is having a lot of fun playing Conway playing Kubrick. However, the gag gets tiresome after a few scenes and the movie really has no substance to fall back on. Interesting idea, but poorly executed overall.
