This breezy picture was clearly inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock filmography.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2025

Foul Play may not date as well as one would like but still prove to be charming, often-hilarious and a fabulous vehicle for one of the screen’s greatest female stars.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 28, 2025

At 116 minutes, there’s simply too much space for momentum to dissipate, whether from gags like Burgess Meredith as an unexpected action hero or vivid automobile stunts, and Foul Play feels as much like a missed opportunity now as in its heyday.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2025

...a comfortably familiar premise that's employed to somewhat overlong yet mostly entertaining effect...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2020

Colin Higgins proves himself adept at recreating the style and themes of Hitchcock's films, as well as creating entertaining schemes. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 5, 2019

Somewhere in the cumbersome comedy thriller Colin Higgins has made of Foul Play, lies the ghost of a good, old-fashioned mystery-comedy-romance.

| Jul 17, 2019

One recognizes the romantic comedy impulse behind the sexual sparrings of Hawn and Chase. It's the execution that leaves everything to be desired.

| May 9, 2017

Incredibly silly but very enjoyable ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2017

Farcical '70s comedy-mystery hybrid has violence, profanity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2016

Goldie Hawn charms her way through this comic Hitchcock homage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2015

The comedy/thriller plods on for too long with tasteless and witless physical comedy, though it has a few funny moments.

| Original Score: C | Oct 9, 2009

Writer Colin Higgins makes a good directorial bow.

| Oct 30, 2007

A funny, successful, and very derivative crime-comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2007

The film clumsily and sluggishly mixes humor and suspense and fails at both.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2006

Unsatisfactory as a whole, the film is hilarious and tense in bits.

| Jan 26, 2006

Occasionally fun, it features Chase trying to assert himself as an action heartthrob and Hawn charming as in almost all of her films at the time. However, it is a disposable film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Chevy when he was funny, Goldie when she was starting her heyday, and Dudley too. What a deal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2005

Mr. Higgins's penchant for mixing visual elegance with coarse gags is equally ill-advised, especially because it makes him work the gags so hard.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2005

Charming and goofy Hitchcock homage with great performances by Hawn and Chase.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2005

Look out for the elf!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2005