Review of The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) by Dave Kehr for Chicago Reader — 04 Jun 2019
It settles uneasily on the back of a verbal comic like Hanks—the movie keeps setting up gags that never quite materialize, and Hanks, unable to fill out his underwritten part with slapstick, is left stranded.
Without any big laughs to even out the film's tone, the balance gradually shifts to the grim paranoia of the basic conception, and the movie that emerges seems oddly bleak and melancholic.
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This review of The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Reader on 04 Jun 2019.
The Man with One Red Shoe has generally received mixed reviews.
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