A smart, generous, genuinely funny affair. Sometimes, like the camel who almost ambles away with the picture, it's longish in the tooth, but it is based on an extremely astute vision of life. [15 May 1987]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Ishtar is an unabashed vamp for a pair of household names, and as such it works, often hilariously.Read Full Review »
The worst of it is painless; the best is funny, sly, cheerful and, here and there, even genuinely inspired. [15 May 1987, p.C3]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
It's piddling -- a hangdog little comedy with not enough laughs...its spirit rattles around inside it like a marble in an oil drum.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
A truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy. Elaine May, the director, has mounted a multimillion-dollar expedition in search of a plot so thin that it hardly could support a five-minute TV sketch.Read Full Review »
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