Faye is a sensitive character study on an acting legend. While Bouzereau’s decision-making feels safe, and even at times dull, there is an understanding after getting to the core of who Faye Dunaway is as to why.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 25, 2024

To say it was a damning illustration of how Hollywood sucks up and spits out even its biggest stars would be to understate how many of her friends, drowned in berets, cravats, titfers and competitive scarves, looked irretrievably flattened...

| Aug 27, 2024

[Faye] doesn’t shirk accountability or invalidate the experiences of co-stars who say they feared her, but invites a reappraisal of the sexist notion that she was a belligerent prima donna.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2024

Her work was nothing short of an obsession, but there are too few moments of fellow artists speaking directly about its particulars—the sizzling rage, agony and intelligence that made her an icon.

| Aug 21, 2024

Respectful if not revelatory, Bouzereau’s film gives her legacy a massage, gently probing, but also leaving her in peace.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2024

If you want to luxuriate in Dunaway’s potent screen presence, just watch the films; if you’re after juicy yet unverified scandal, read a Reddit thread. This documentary falls into the gap between them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2024

The film has a clear but admirable agenda: Going through Dunaway’s career and arguing that her reputation as “difficult” was unfair,

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2024

This highly sanitized, rosy-tinted homage to the career of Faye Dunaway doesn't come close to expressing her iconicity or cultural magnitude. As an introduction to Dunaway, it's an abridged expose primed for the states of any stranger on the street.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Ultimately, it does give you a sense of who she is -- maybe in spite of herself.

| Aug 3, 2024

If you know Faye Dunaway, you should watch this. If you don't know Faye Dunaway, you should watch this.

| Aug 3, 2024

The movie could have been much deeper and smarter, but it’s enough to make you hope for some sort of comeback or at the very least a renewed appreciation of her work.

| Aug 2, 2024

After a few on-camera interview demands, Dunaway herself tells her story crisply and with candor. Clips of her from past interviews fill in some gaps.

| Jul 30, 2024

“Faye” is a great rewind of one of (if not the) most defining periods in filmmaking, but holds the cards too tight on Dunaway as a person.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 25, 2024

The fascinating bio-pic gave me pause as to why I liked her or didn't.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2024

Exposes the different facets and even vulnerabilities and contradictions so that we can delve into the conflicting and at the same time fascinating life of one of the most talented actresses in the history of cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2024

Connecting an actor’s onscreen personality with his or her offscreen reality tends to be a dicey proposition. But in “Faye,” an addictive and essential portrait of Faye Dunaway, it turns out to be the right thing to do.

| Jul 22, 2024

The documentary's bittersweet quality ultimately proves to be its most praiseworthy feature.

| Jul 22, 2024

The reminiscences we hear throughout “Faye” could be more detailed, but they are unusually direct and soulful.

| Jul 19, 2024

Faye is one of the strongest, most insightful and entertaining celeb documentaries in recent memory. And considering how many there are, that’s saying something.

| Jul 16, 2024

At its best, Faye neither justifies nor condemns the burn book’s worth of digs that Dunaway has had thrown at her over the decades. It simply integrates the bad and the ugly in with the good, sometimes in ways that favor one element over the other two.

| Jul 15, 2024