It's a bad film that for success relies on the creepy performance by John Travolta.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 26, 2023

The Fanatic is a thriller, but it feels more like 90 minutes of Fred Durst venting and getting a lot of things off his chest.

| Feb 3, 2023

It dreams of being an entertaining thriller and commentary about the dangers of toxic fandom. Unfortunately this is one Hollywood dream that became a nightmare with an end result that is just toxic.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Not only it's improbable, but it is pretentious. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 25, 2022

On one hand, it’s kind of entrancing watching Travolta wrestle with such a rudderless story. On the other hand, you would be much better served by taking my word for it rather than losing the 88 minutes that you’ll never get back.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Travolta continues to be stuck in career purgatory and won’t find another comeback in this exploitative trash.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Despite a haunting last 60 seconds, The Fanatic is likely to just go down in film history as an embarrassing effort for both Durst and Travolta.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 10, 2021

John Travolta goes full retard and no one seems to really care in this campy thriller that even betrays its own inner logic, and doesn't even seem to be sure about the message it wants to send out there.... yes, I'm looking at you Mr. Durst!

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 17, 2021

An uncomfortable thriller with good ideas, but very little tact. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 12, 2020

The story is... completely shallow and there's nothing new in it.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 14, 2020

Travolta makes specific acting choices to play a character that he said is on the spectrum, including rocking back and forth and rarely making eye contact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2020

A factory of unintentional laughter. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 8, 2020

I like [Durst's] approach to this new film, an 88-minute psychological thriller that might be compared with Martin Scorsese's King of Comedy

| Jun 24, 2020

An unpleasant watch any way you slice it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 11, 2020

A car crash of a movie that, despite its hammy acting and over-the-top story, will have you unable to avert your eyes. It might be time for John Travolta to reconnect with Tarantino again.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2020

So now we know what a film directed by Fred Durst and starring John Travolta looks like. For the better: it is competently put together, and features a sturdy supporting cast.

| Jun 4, 2020

he thing that makes this film work as frighteningly well as it does is Travolta's all-in performance and Durst's surprisingly thoughtful script and precision direction, which looks at fandom through a very jaundiced lens.

| May 29, 2020

It is poorly handled by director Fred Durst... however, with a clumsy voice over, which distracts from the story rather than enchanting it and some time-lapse drawings that don't seem to add anything to the unfolding narrative.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 26, 2020

This movie has no stance at all. It hates everyone - not the least of which are people with autism...it's a wretched, offensive pile of junk.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 22, 2020

If you judged acting by volume alone, Travolta would win every Oscar for his performance.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 12, 2019