Metacritic reviews

A comedy about friendship, faith and the acting life, Le Grand Role is unabashedly corny and tear-jerking - and still quite likable.

Predictable yet charming, The Grand Role is a crowd-pleasing dramatic comedy about love, friendship, role-playing and Jewish pride.

It is a most tender love story, first and foremost, and a warm, affectionately humorous depiction of Kurz's close-knit Jewish friends and colleagues.

Mr. Coyote, who appears to be playing Steven Spielberg and steals every scene he is in.

A good story, but its potential is never realized.

A short and soppy story that Coyote lends some dignity, but not much power.

A shaky effort to make a point about art triumphing over all.

Director and co-writer Steve Suissa misses every opportunity to go deeper, either for laughs or pathos.

Chuckle-worthy jabs at American cultural imperialism aside, Le Grand Rôle has little to offer except a maudlin love story that ironically feels like a Tinseltown tearjerker facsimile.

Half a notch above a vanity project, this chipper little number by French director Steve Suissa offers a deadly combination of shamelessness, narcissism and schoolboy comedy.