Frank is bizarre, awkward, funny, beautiful, poignant, and it's that seamless blend of all those ingredients that make it worth recognizing.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 17, 2024

Abrahamson perfectly balances Frank’s gradual downshifting of tones from offbeat comedy to emotionally bare drama in the final act, as the best indie comedies often do.

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

'Frank' addresses mental illness head-on and in a very, well, frank manner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2021

Frank is much more interested in the rough than the diamond and because of that, it remains one of the more refreshing representations of musical genius and the nature of fame in recent memory.

| Jun 23, 2021

By the end, Frank is not about anything. Definitely not about music. But is it not funny? Tons. Fun to see Fassbender in papier mache? Oh yeah. It's a great, unique, silly comedy.

| Feb 22, 2021

Not to be outdone by her brother, Maggie Gyllenhaal also has a quirky, tough-to-pin-down film featuring an enigmatic costumed character named Frank. This "Frank" burrows into the artistic conflict between commodifying pain into a persona.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2020

However you find Frank, find him. He'll be the best weird friend you've met in a while.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 6, 2019

It begs interesting questions, even if the way it ponders them can only be described as eccentric.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2019

Frank will break your heart into pieces or your face into a smile. Perhaps both.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2019

Michael Fassbender as Frank is extraordinary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2019

With Frank, Abrahamson cultivates a mystical hour of prog-based shenanigans before he - and his film - begin to lose their collective heads in a muddled final third.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2019

The film does everything right on a technical and structural angle...it chooses realism over sensation.

| Jan 5, 2019

Frank is a delightful finger-snapping oddball set to music and creative mayhem

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Abrahamson makes such light, subtle work of this film's potentially stodgy moral.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2018

In a film starring a papier mache face, it was one of the most realistically optimistic moments I have ever seen, and one which I'm going to think about for a long time.

| Aug 22, 2018

I can't think of anyone who would want to watch a film about the creepy 1980s comedy act Frank Sidebottom, except people really missing Jimmy Savile.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2018

Michael Fassbender gives a virtuoso physical performance as the affable Frank: we may never see his face, but that doesn't prevent Fassbender from emoting or exhibiting impeccable timing.

| Aug 15, 2017

Don't see this movie. Or do, because it's really good. But don't, because you will hate yourself afterwards.

| Sep 20, 2016

Abrahamson eventually tells us the answers, but he's far more interested in dissecting the intricacies and dynamic of a band along the way.

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2016

Anyone who knows working musicians will be turned off by the spectacle of such self-defeating behavior. No professional musician would act like this.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 24, 2016