Pauline Kael and Richard Brody (who calls Ishtar “one of my favorite films…a masterwork”) are only two of the many critics who’ve lined up behind Elaine May’s woefully misunderstood film. “Ishtar is a really good movie that suffered, in its infancy, from very bad press,” adds A. O. Scott in the Times. “A slow but steady tide of revisionism has taken hold, and Ishtar has been rehabilitated by critics and cinephiles…It is a sly absurdist farce with keen psychological insights and prescient geopolitical implications.” This hilarious story features Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as two incredibly untalented past-their-prime lounge singers who end up with a gig in a Moroccan hotel, of all places. Before they know it, they become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.