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Rated: R; Genre: Comedy; With: Kenneth Branagh, Leonardo DiCaprio and Judy Davis
B-
By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

CELEBRITY (R) Woody Allen's surest instincts about the title subject are at work in the vast, high-profile cast (Melanie Griffith, Kenneth Branagh, Famke Janssen, Winona Ryder, and thousands more) he assembled to act out his complicated and ambivalent notions of the world into which he has pitched himself, with equal parts fervor and loathing, for so long. But Allen's canniest hire of all is Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays a bratty, destructive young star, juicing the proceedings with a power surge that subsides as soon as he exits. B- (#459, Nov. 20


Posted Nov 27, 1998
 

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