Trading Places 7.4/10. The site's consensus states: "Featuring deft interplay between Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, "Trading Places" is an immensely appealing social satire." Metacritic gave the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 9 critics, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Author and critic Richard Schickel of "Time" magazine called "Trading Places" "one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times". While admitting Aykroyd's success in demonstrating "perfect prissiness as Winthorpe", Schickel commented on Murphy's performance as Valentine calling Murphy "a force to be reckoned with" and stating that he "makes "Trading Places" something more
Private Fears in Public Places (film) Private Fears in Public Places (film) Private Fears in Public Places ( ("Hearts"), is a 2006 French film directed by Alain Resnais. It was adapted from Alan Ayckbourn's play "Private Fears in Public Places". The film won several awards, including a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. For the second time in his career Alain Resnais turned to an Alan Ayckbourn play for his source material (having previously adapted another play for "Smoking/No Smoking"), and remained close to the original structure while transferring the setting and milieu from provincial England to the 13th arrondissement of Paris (contrary to his