It’s a great fit for Jon Hamm’s talents, and if you didn’t know Chevy Chase had done this before, there’s nothing to flag that the onscreen version didn’t originate with Hamm. He just slips straight into that skin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2023

The characters are so sharply drawn that the humour flows naturally. Forget the superheroes, Confess, Fletch starts the franchise we actually need.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 11, 2023

One of the year’s best comedies...

| Dec 13, 2022

There’s something turgid and defeated about it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2022

It’s amiable entertainment, and Hamm may well develop in the character if this becomes a franchise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2022

Even if you’re wholly unfamiliar with the franchise, Confess, Fletch will find fans among anyone who likes mystery-comedies, wickedly dry humour, and the sight of Kyle MacLachlan twirling glow-sticks to club music.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2022

[The film adopts] a tone of comic curiosity and breezy irreverence, confident that the eccentric particulars of human behavior will be enough to carry it along.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2022

The new movie from the Superbad director is well worth a watch, and a reminder that Hollywood doesn't know what to do with a mid-budget comedy these days.

| Sep 30, 2022

It’s difficult to remember a recent American comedy with so many strong supporting performances, much less one that spins them around a headliner who’s as nonchalantly magnetic as Hamm.

| Sep 30, 2022

Hamm is terrific and the most of the gags work in what one can only hope will be a rebooted franchise.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 29, 2022

It’s a perfectly delightful throwback to an age when a comic mystery fueled by someone with a screen-friendly persona and even more screen-friendlier good looks weren’t an anomaly, and a perfect vehicle for Hamm.

| Sep 26, 2022

Sometimes you just want a good time, and with “Fletch,” Hamm, Mottola and company know exactly how to deliver.

| Sep 23, 2022

It’s engaging, unpretentious fun, and Jon Hamm slips happily into the worn penny-loafers of I. M. “Fletch” Fletcher, a “onetime investigative journalist of some note” (his own description), occasional solver of murders, and all-around wiseass.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2022

Hamm, who co-produced, is well cast, with great comic timing and all the charm his character needs to get away with behavior which ranges from smart-aleck to obnoxious.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 22, 2022

It is so fun. Jon Hamm is not trying to do Chevy Chase, which is so smart.

| Sep 19, 2022

Equal parts goofy, charismatic, boozy, and clever, Hamm is firmly in his element in Greg Mottola’s entertaining art heist romp Confess, Fletch.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 19, 2022

Whereas the original Fletch went for broad comedy, with Chase donning a number of goofy disguises, Confess is played in a much lower key.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2022

This refreshed version of the smart-alecky character Chevy Chase played in the 1980s has a certain breezy charm, not worthy of rushing to a theater but hardly a waste of one's digital-viewing time.

| Sep 16, 2022

Charming, happy-go-lucky and loose with the truth, Fletch, the title character of the late Gregory McDonald’s easily digestible crime series, has found joyous casting in Jon Hamm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2022

There’s something so dispiriting about seeing talented people drowning in a comedy that can’t find the rhythm of its own jokes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 16, 2022