Really likeable family comedy set in cutthroat Hollywood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

A fitfully amusing romp that, if nothing else, will appeal to fans of Malcolm in the Middle and its pubescent star, Frankie Muniz.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 11, 2002

Can’t quite work itself up to affirm that Lying is Bad, but proclaims with great conviction that The Truth Isn’t Overrated.

| Original Score: C- | May 9, 2002

[A]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the best of the Disney comedies from the 60s.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2002

Manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2002

Unless you're part of the Nickelodeon Nation, the cold, hard truth is you're better off dropping your 'tween at the multiplex and spending that hour and a half doing something more worthwhile.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2002

A children's movie that's almost worth seeing even when not accompanied by a child.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2002

Never pushes its pranks far enough to reach laugh-out-loud success and never gives its actors enough comedic support.

| Feb 8, 2002

Becomes a progression of increasingly elaborate slapstick stunts, in the brutal, noisy Home Alone vein, in which the complexity of the pranks rarely yields a commensurate comic reward.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 8, 2002

In gleefully, thumpingly hyperbolic terms, it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass, jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 8, 2002

I'd be the one lying if I said that Muniz and his inspired payback aren't sometimes funny.

| Feb 8, 2002

The overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future Hollywood sellouts.

| Feb 8, 2002

Where there's dumb and dumber, there's invariably dumbest, a case in point being Big Fat Liar.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2002

The sort of movie that hands critics a dagger and invites them to plunge right in.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 8, 2002

The movie's charm is that it has confidence in this goofy story and doesn't push it too hard.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2002

Feels at times like a giant commercial for Universal Studios, where much of the action takes place.

| Feb 8, 2002

It's no surprise, alas, that Mr. Muniz and Ms. Bynes seem considerably smarter than the frantic knockabout comedy in which they find themselves trapped.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 7, 2002

Plays so flat, so to close its 'movie message' formula, that it seems as if we've seen this movie before.

| Feb 7, 2002