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Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: French cinema's reputation for subtlety goes up in smoke with OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies, a movie whose satire proves as lame as its clunky title. Read more
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: This French comedy fondly lampoons both the popular French spy movies adapted from Jean Bruce's novels in the 1950s and '60s and the colonialist era they were set in. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath is invincibly smug, occasionally smarmy and obsessed with food. If that whets your appetite, he's your homme. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: Dujardin is what really makes it all work, though. He's an absolute riot, with Conneryesque looks and physicality, and the ability to segue into utter goofballery with a degree of arch-browed suaveness. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: The packaging is perfect, and the end results beat A View To A Kill any day. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: A lame comedy with a few decent laughs and several yawn-spawning set pieces that don't really go anywhere. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Directed and co-written by Michel Hazanavicius and starring the French comedian Jean Dujardin as OSS 117, the movie is a sketch stretched to tedious feature length. Read more
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: A pleasant sorbet to wash away the aftertaste of the pre-summer clunkers. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Closer in spirit to the deadpan stylings of early Zucker brothers than the more obvious slap-shtick of the Austin Powers franchise, Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The film is a collection of not especially funny routines - with lots of homophobic jokes thrown in - that have been done to death in previous movies of this sort. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I have never been a particular admirer of either James Bond or Austin Powers, and could hardly be expected to be overjoyed by a 'cross between them.' Hence, I was hardly surprised when I didn't crack a smile over the antics of Mr. Jean Dujardin. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The French-made movie travels familiar ground, with a nod as well to Airplane!, Top Secret and that whole genre. Even compared to them, it pushes things just a little -- not too far, but toward the loony. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Given that this is a French film, there's an unmistakable edge to its satirical portrayal of postwar East-West relations. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Dujardin nails his character, who is deeply dense but always seems to draw the winning card, mainly through dumb luck. And Hazanavicius clearly knows the '60s-era Bond films, which are full of ripe targets that he lovingly demolishes. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A witty French espionage comedy that affectionately spoofs 1970s Eurospy thrillers. Read more