Under the Cherry Moon 1986

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Prince wants to ride atop the float, receiving the crowd's adulation, but he's also larking about down in the street, happy to be one of the clowns. Read more

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: [An] absurdly bad movie. Read more

Walter Goodman, New York Times: For all those out there who can't get enough of Prince, Under the Cherry Moon may be just the antidote. Read more

Pat Graham, Chicago Reader: At least Prince's narcissism is easier to take than Stallone's or Rob Lowe's: he doesn't regard the rest of the world as an insult to his estimable self. Read more

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Time Out: Shot in black-and-white in an attempt to evoke the sophisticated burr of '40s films, its intent is hamstrung by over-familiar gags, though the script comes more to life when Prince and Benton lapse into black street talk. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Ss flat and uninteresting as a newsreel from the 1930s about vacationing in the south of France. Read more