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  • 80
    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

  • 80
    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

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    The filmmakers have wisely turned it into a comedy, and a wickedly entertaining one at that. Read full review

  • 75
    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

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times |

    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

  • 70
    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

  • 63
    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

  • 50
    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

  • 30
    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

  • 30
    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

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