Movies
Man of the Year
A cable-channel comedian (Robin Williams, given plenty of scope for his penile obsession) runs for President on a dare, and thereafter needs to be continually nagged by his aides to be "edgier" and "funnier." These might also be the voices inside the head of writer and director Barry Levinson, who is prone to talk out his editorial points, and who allows the movie to slip back and forth willy-nilly between political satire and paranoia thriller. (Laura Linney, the whistle-blower who discovers a glitch in the voting-booth software, plays it straight.) That the movie mixes tones is only a part of the problem. The other parts of the problem are that both tones individually are flat and fuzzy. Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Lewis Black. 2006.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
