Jamie Bell, who plays the title character in the new film Mister Foe, is the next Christian Bale. At least.

| Jul 17, 2019

Has a strange kind of charm, a warm, open disposition that even in its darkest moments, we always pull for Hallam.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2019

Hallam Foe does quite a few rather nasty things, but Mr. Bell's engaging and empathetic performance makes him a character we can't stop caring about.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2018

[Mister Foe] creates a gently, but deeply, moral atmosphere.

| Aug 22, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

it's ultimately impossible to rise above the overly melodramatic script. The world doesn't really need another wicked stepmother, after all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2008

Grumpy Glaswegians going at it are once again the focus of David ("Young Adam") Mackenzie's bleak and dreary -- but not wholly uninteresting -- drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2008

Bell was a decent kid actor and a terrific dancer in Billy Elliot, but he's grown into a really first-rate actor.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Another successful and intriguing entry in Mackenzie's growing oeuvre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

[A] prettily photographed but relationally science-fictional coming-of-age blather.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

It's a coming of age you can believe in.

| Oct 9, 2008

The final installment of Mackenzie's 'sex trilogy' is so strenuously edgy it's tiresome.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2008

This Scottish film often pushes for realism, though its stylish tones fall back on whimsy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2008

While the film playfully telegraphs its inspirations, Mister Foe never persuasively comes together as a dark fable about an adolescent misfit stuck in loss.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 19, 2008

[Director David] Mackenzie has reined in the strangeness to deliver a conventional, if better than average, mystery.

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2008

By the end of "Hallam Foe," you've nearly forgotten his all-too-regular boy development. Now you're wondering, what's Kate doing when he's not looking?

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 12, 2008

Didn't I review this coming-of-age picture back in the spring when it was called Charlie Bartlett?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2008

Jamie Bell in his most memorable outing since Billy Elliot, as a Peeping Tom acting upon Oedipal urges in a dysfunctional family drama from Scotland.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 6, 2008

A worthy addition to Holden Caulfield's coming-of-age subgenre of off-kilter teenage boys let loose in big cities. Bell and Myles give terrific performances.

| Original Score: A | Sep 5, 2008

Although it's nice to see Mackenzie find uplift in the erotic, what helps drive Mister Foe is how deftly he turns chasm into intimacy between Bell and Myles, both of whom give sharply observed, charismatic portrayals.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 5, 2008