Auto Focus
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
- Starring: Greg Kinnear, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Willem Dafoe
- Summary: This absorbing glimpse into the colorful life, and mysterious death, of actor Bob Crane is also a fascinating chronicle of American male sexual identity in the 60's and 70's. (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Director: Paul Schrader
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Crime
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Positive: 25 out of 36
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100The film is pitch-perfect in its decor, music, clothes, cars, language and values. It takes place during those heady years between the introduction of the Pill and the specter of AIDS, when men shaped as adolescents by Playboy in the 1950s now found some of their fantasies within reach.
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80Kinnear's performance has to be one of the most sympathetic acts of decency one actor has ever extended to another. Crane always wanted to be a real, respectable movie actor. Channeled through Kinnear, he finally gets his wish.
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60It never answers the key question: Why should we care?
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30Perhaps it is a shame that no one thought of digitally restoring and theatrically releasing the sex videos that Crane made with the many women he pleasured...that would have been far more entertaining than anything found in Auto Focus.
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