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

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

Looks good without ever really catching fire.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2007

An amusingly tense saga of literary con-artistry.

| Aug 3, 2007

An elegant, entertaining parable of the emperor's new clothes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2007

Like Irving's book, it doesn't hold up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2007

Meticulously evoked atmosphere adds to the experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2007

A two-dimensional landscape.

| Aug 3, 2007

Ultimately, these smart, zeitgeisty riffs are just as implausible as the idea of an authorised Howard Hughes autobiography.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Aug 3, 2007

Gere proves that there's more to his range than ageing romantic leads in a multi-layered tale of public fraud and self-deception.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2007

A tremendous shaggy dog story that bounds capably between comedy and tragedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2007

... a serious and amusing black farce that does without obvious heroes or villains ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2007

Gere persuasively portrays a guy whose confidence blossoms as he makes the discovery that as his lies grow so does the ease with which he tells them.

| Apr 24, 2007

Hallström stops well short of cheesy, however, and he never veers from the movie's central fascination: the author's obsessive melding with his subject.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 20, 2007

Richard Gere is superb as Irving, capturing the brio and smooth charm but also the barely subliminal anger, neediness, and desperation.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 13, 2007

A gripping little film that is well told and well performed.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 12, 2007

The Hoax isn't Gere's best movie (that honor will always and forever belong to Days of Heaven), but it might feature his best performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 12, 2007

At least half of The Hoax is a giddy pleasure.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2007

It's a terrific film.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2007