Little Man (2006)

Like Tootsie, Mrs Doubtfire, Big Mamma, White Chicks, and the Jump Street movies, this is a "disguised interloper" comedy, one with the momentarily amusing premise of an ex-jailbird posing as a child in a family home, but an inert plot, pantomime performances, questionable sex jokes, and odd effects that for ninety minutes see Marlon Wayan's face hovering disconcertingly over an infant's body of wildly inconsistent size, mean the movie is intolerable.

☆☆☆☆☆

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22 Jump Street (2014)

The undercover cops again head to college to investigate a drug ring and achieve that rare thing, a sequel funnier than - in fact, all-round better than - the original, particularly with its self-referential humour and the hilarious way it embroils its heroes despite themselves - clearly adults and clearly not brothers - in the popularity contests, cliques and dramas of high school.

★★★★☆

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Working Girl (1988)

In her career best performance, Melanie Griffiths plays Tess McGill, a big-haired receptionist from Staten Island who decides she deserves better than her demeaning job and cheating boyfriend and so sets about making it big in the corporate world, in this comedy drama that anyone who has ever had a job or a boss they didn't like will find impossible not to love: a kind of 80s corporate office version of The Devil Wears Prada with Sigourney Weaver in the role of boss from hell.

★★★★★

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21 Jump Street (2012)

Fans of the hit 80s tv show about cops undercover in American high schools (which took itself quite seriously) will be curious to see this movie-length comedy version, most amusing when it plays on the idiocy of obvious adults trying to pass themselves off as schoolkids, and maybe those besotted by Channing will enjoy it too.

★★☆☆☆

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The Imposter (2012)

This "catfish" documentary about a 23-year-old Spanish interloper who against all odds is able to inveigle his way into an American family by assuming the identity of its missing 16-year-old son, is so astounding it beggars belief but saves itself from telling a merely ridiculous story by posing, about halfway through, some new, unexpected questions.

★★★☆☆

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Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

With an elaborate lie, Will Smith ingratiates himself with affluent Ouisa and Flan Kittredge in this pretentious, wordy, tragic, and ultimately cathartic treatise on the human condition, inspired by a real New York professional interloper -- and I love it!

★★★★★

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