When you get to the final, haunting line of “men gotta have fun,” you know exactly why this is a Paul Schrader picture.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Jun 24, 2024

Part biopic and part meditation on sexual addiction...

| Jun 5, 2024

A distant, even sterile, yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2021

Much more could have been done with this story. Schrader insists for some reason that certain things about Crane had to remain a "mystery" ... why not illuminate a life and time to the greatest extent one can?

| Feb 16, 2021

The technical aspects of the film are quite on the money.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

For all its tantalizing forays into the narcotic, head-swimming loss of self and perspective in addiction, Auto Focus never quite extends its sympathy to its characters or convinces us that they are real people.

| Feb 4, 2020

The movie's themes are aptly captured in the double entendre of the title, suggesting both Crane's narcissism and the video technology that abets it...a lot of Auto Focus is coolly funny--it's a slyly satiric comedy of '60s manners.

| Mar 12, 2018

The film isn't the least bit erotic, or prurient - or even interesting.

| Original Score: C | Jan 4, 2018

What makes the material work so well here is the perception that both writer and director choose to execute with its protagonist, which is not to provide overlying sympathy for him or his choices.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 25, 2012

Ultimately one-dimensional and superficial look into the life of Bob Crane...

| Apr 29, 2009

A repetitive and disappointingly shallow look at what is in fact an intriguing Hollywood mystery.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 2, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Out of focus.

| Original Score: C | Sep 20, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: C- | Aug 7, 2004

Sempre fascinante, o filme traz Greg Kinnear e Willem Dafoe em performances absolutamente impecveis.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 28, 2004

See it for Kinnear's performance, see it for a supreme depiction of the time, but don't go in expecting Citizen Kane. More like Deep Throat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2004

Another probing case history of male pathology from one of the most consistently interesting American film-makers alive.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2003