Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

This sleek and sunny comedy is an all-too-rare example of smart and inventive Hollywood filmmaking.Read Full Review »

Manages to fascinate more than it entertains.Read Full Review »

The movie's ridiculous good humor -- laced with just enough barbs to keep it from going soft -- suggest that it's been made with some thought and care. I often found myself laughing in spite of no one, not even myself.Read Full Review »

Sharp satire or feel-good foolishness? Silly sap won out.Read Full Review »

The number of levels on which these pros trade on their diminished reputations makes the movie an inside joke rather than a funny one. If Spade thinks otherwise, he's nucking futs.Read Full Review »

The film is intermittently funny and strangely intermittent.Read Full Review »

There are laughs, to be sure, and some gleeful supporting performances, but after a promising start the movie sinks in a bog of sentiment.Read Full Review »

Spade goes sweet and gooey. This is nucking futs.Read Full Review »

The movie has been made with consummate carelessness but with occasional moments of knowing humor.Read Full Review »

Maintaining a winking distance from his comic persona, Mr. Spade radiates a cunning show-business cynicism that lets you know he's aware that he's slumming to make a buck.Read Full Review »