Every scene or bit of dialogue seems purposeful but disagreeable - since it's based on the controversial tales of Charles Bukowski.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 21, 2020

Linda Bukowski has praised this film for not buying into the illusion of Bukowski.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

It's not Barfly, but it'll do. Cheers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2020

Factotum underplays the truism that we all have a little Bukowski in us. A parting shot sums up a lifetime of unsettled scores.

| May 12, 2020

A movie is not good simply for having a good foundation. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2019

The fact that Chinaski can be ably transplanted from the '40s to the early 21st century, and from LA to MN, speaks to his endurance as American literature's preeminent antihero, and Dillon seems to have a firm grip on this notion.

| Mar 24, 2014

Factotum is an existentialist indie film about the loneliness of the human condition, which is normally the cinematic equivalent of having a hole drilled in your head.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 22, 2011

An understated and atmospheric portrait of the artist as a young booze-hound built around a quiet but magnetic performance by Matt Dillon.

| Aug 20, 2010

Minimalism-a-thon, numb from the very start

| Aug 30, 2009

Dillon is an utterly excellent actor without ego.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2009

The entire production hangs on Dillon, but he's up to the task, serving up Hank's heart with bottom-of-the-barrel bravado.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2009

Norwegian director Bent Hamer ("Kitchen Stories") mines the rich literary soil of poet/novelist Charles Bukowski to issue forth a piquant cinematic showcase for Bukowski's talent and malaise.

| Original Score: B | Apr 20, 2009

Wryly funny and understated and surprisingly easy to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Will not please devotees of narrative closure, but it's a must for anyone who lives by our hero's credo: 'If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't try at all.'

| Feb 1, 2008

Unfortunately -- like its lead character -- the film doesn't do much more than drift from one scene to another.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

The film unfolds at a leisurely pace and takes the form of a series of incidents and anecdotes, which works surprisingly well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2007

Factotum isn't for everybody, certainly not the abstentious. But there's no denying it, Chinaski appeals to our inner anarchist.

| Feb 22, 2007

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 16, 2007

Dillon delivers with a cocky denseness that is at once hilarious and poignant...

| Jan 12, 2007

The transplant didn't take in Barfly, and it works no better here in Factotum. In each case, the baying of the boozehounds just seems repetitious and banal -- the noise endures but the joy is gone.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2006