Color Me Kubrick

Color Me Kubrick (2005)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (60 reviews)

  • 41% of users liked it
    (8,041 ratings)

In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact that Conway was openly gay, bore no physical resemblance to Kubrick, and knew little about the director's… More

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Unrated,
Directed By
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Written By
Anthony Frewin
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 23, 2007 Wide
Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    Malkovich captures not only the nuttiness of Conway, with his smorgasbord of foreign-sounding accents, but also his pathos.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    Not only is there nothing there, the nothingness is a complete bore. When a film's highpoint is a soundtrack that relies heavily on other soundtracks, you've got problems.

  • John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

    The irony of Color Me Kubrick is that the visual tricks merely serve as a backdrop for Malkovich's inspired high-wire performance.

  • Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York

    It's an impressive moving wax museum, certainly, but even metatextual follies eventually need a pulse.

  • Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter

    At best a kitschy Catch Me If You Can and at worst a tedious comedy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Manu G


    A True...ish Story. It's pretty terrible. Kubric been one of the most crazy weird directors of all-time could possibly be insulted rocking on his grave because of this crap of a so called movie. If your fan of John Malkovich see it but just as fan because the plot is just… More

  • Melvin W


    I expected to love this movie. One of my favorite actors, John Malkovich playing a Stanley Kubrick imposter. How can it go wrong? Well, it did. Boring unfunny garbage. Basically the same thing would happen over and over. He would meet a new person, say he was Kubrick and then they… More

  • Luke B


    Con-man stories always hold some interest for me, even if they fail to truly go into detail about the protagonist or their victims. Color Me Kubrick is more of an interesting idea than a complete story. Alan Conway pretended to be Stanley Kubrick, despite knowing little about his… More

  • Michael G


    Color Me Kubrick was... I don't know. It's not great, it's not even really good, but it is entertaining at times. John Malkovich was amusing as hell, every accent he busted out more outlandish than the one before. Kind of like his wardrobe--a gay Tyler Durden. Director… More

  • Steve B


    Interesting idea that turned into a one-trick pony very early on.

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