Features Richard Gere and Alfred Molina in their best performances in years.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 24, 2020

The Hoax gets off to a sluggish start, but director Lasse Hallström does a good job of keeping the film interesting enough that the audience feels rewarded by the time it's over.

| Original Score: B | Nov 21, 2019

From characters to costuming to consummate storytelling, set design and to pitch perfect soundtrack by Craig Burwell, The Hoax is the real deal.

| Nov 13, 2019

An endlessly entertaining ride with a man who couldn't tell the truth if he tried, but thanks to Gere is enormously appealing anyway.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Que Irving queira se sentir importante, é compreensível; que sua suposta cinebiografia compartilhe da fraude, nem tanto.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2008

An amazing story filled with twists, turns, intrigue, betrayals, hallucinations and close calls.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 16, 2008

Despite good energy and a source with ample potential, the film is held back by trite ideas.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 14, 2008

It's hard to get a fix on what Hallstrom had in mind.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2007

Despite making Clifford Irving into a grubby suburbanite rather than the mischievous Abby Hoffman figure he really was, the film is generally entertaining a good introduction to the greatest literary hoax of all time.

| Dec 4, 2007

...breezy, light-hearted...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2007

Very enjoyable.

| Nov 3, 2007

At times the film becomes more about Richard Gere and his Oscar grab than about the story... But the bait-and-switch moments as Irving plays the media are the highlights.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2007

Amoral con artist's true tale will pull adults in.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2007

A thoroughly enjoyable ride.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2007

Amazing though the story is, it would be nothing without Gere's slippery, insinuating -- if not precisely likable -- performance as Irving.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2007

Both an enjoyable call-back to the early '70s and a well-acted film that gives Richard Gere a chance to fully exhibit his acting skills.

Full Review | Original Score: 80/100 | Oct 16, 2007

The film is an exciting tale of deception and fast-paced thinking, the perfect therapy for all the growing core of cynics who are at a breaking point where maybe they don't feel they can even trust "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition".

| Oct 15, 2007

The publishers believed him because the idea was so implausible. It had to be the truth.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 9, 2007

Highly entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2007

I've never been a fan of Richard Gere, but he gives the performance of his career as Clifford Irving.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2007