CQ Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Exceptionally likable and affecting as well as entertaining.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

A certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents, bouncing along to the all-too-essential groovy soundtrack.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

The result is stylish but awfully slim.Read the full review

Triumphs over its own trendiness only by being vapid and superficial.Read the full review

Pretentious and self-indulgent -- those two words come to mind when considering CQ.Read the full review