Following the art house success Big Night, Stanley Tucci has set his sights on making a screwball comedy. With a top notch cast, and plenty of good humor, The Impostors is warmly reminiscent of the great screwball comedies of old. Arthur and Maurice...read the complete Impostors, The (1998) review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Another false dichotomy bites the dust. Writer/director Stanley Tucci's THE IMPOSTORS is oldfashioned farce that floats along amusingly, yet only occasionally hits the high notes that turn chuckles into gutbusters. Tucci and Oliver Platt star as a pair...read the complete Impostors, The (1998) review at Scott Renshaw
The acting is mostly atrocious, savor the always enticing Steve Buscemi as a depressed lounge singer I laughed out loud every time he appeared. The rest of the cast could use a transfusion of downers to diminish the wild overacting, especially by...read the complete Impostors, The (1998) review at Jerry Saravia
With the exception of a single original joke involving mirrorimaged subtitles, the movie engenders little genuine laughter. The stale humor is so embarrassingly bad that you will find yourself laughing sporadically at the picture rather than with it.The...read the complete Impostors, The (1998) review at Steve Rhodes