Jim Gaffigan shows us he can do both comedy and drama in this crazy film about lies begetting lies and the love a child for his father.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Nov 20, 2020

The movie blends humor with tragedy in a way that makes for both a wonderful profile of a gifted, misunderstood genius and a cautionary tale about being careful what you wish for in the world of the famous.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2020

Sure there are some laughs in this dark comedy, but frankly it's a story about an ordinary man who lies to the people he loves and teaches his son to do the same.

| Mar 20, 2020

Being Frank threatens to sink under the weight of life-altering deception played for laughs.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 16, 2019

It's hard to say who's more at fault: writer, director, actors, pool boy.

| Jul 9, 2019

Director Miranda Bailey put together an overall enjoyable film reminiscent of the sleeper films of an era of filmmaking that is altogether lost

| Jul 6, 2019

Inconsistent lurches between romp comedy and soap opera melodrama detract as the plot noose tightens and the truth closes in on Frank.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2019

...a tonally inconsistent, unsatisfying film that is neither funny nor insightful...

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 28, 2019

Jim Gaffigan mugs as a dad with two families. A few interesting pieces, but it's basically a 온라인카지노추천 sitcom version of a British slamming doors farce.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 28, 2019

No faulting a game cast, but even talented actors can't make this creaky and marginally creepy farce hit enough of the right notes.

| Jun 28, 2019

Bailey's film ultimately feels like a misguided attempt to complicate male entitlement by humanizing it.

| Jun 26, 2019

A frantic and desperate attempt to extract some laughs from a misguided premise.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 24, 2019

The movie has a great message for kids and teens...stand up and be heard...call the adults out...especially if you feel they are wrong and in this case, Frank is oh so wrong...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2019

Being Frank works so hard to make its male abuser sympathetic, while virtually ignoring the inner lives of the women unfortunate enough to be in his path, that each moment of empathy feels unearned and every laugh regrettable.

| Jun 21, 2019

What a jerk. But what an interesting jerk to be at the center of a quirky and entertaining deadpan comedy/drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2019

It needs strong performances to elevate its mediocrity, so instead we are left with a film straining for modest goals it cannot achieve.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2019

You expect Jim Gaffigan to make you laugh, but this, his first lead role, is serious. It's a dramedy. One we think could have had both more comedy and more drama.

| Jun 20, 2019

Being Frank might aspire to creating a forgiving, feel-good mood, but instead it's a depressing portrait of betrayal.

| Jun 19, 2019

Unfortunately, in the filmmaker's narrative-feature debut, she takes the theme of betrayal and turns it into fodder for a sitcom, and not a particularly funny one at that.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2019

It adopts a tonally dissonant and thematically confused approach to what is, in essence, little more than a Lifetime movie writ large.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2019