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80Most entertaining comic drama with a great turn by Jamie Bell.
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78Unlike any coming-of-age movie you've seen before. Equal parts sweet and perverse, this Scottish film is unpredictable in places where it might be twee, and subversively fanciful in others where it might be punishing.
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75Especially worthwhile for the chemistry between Bell and Myles.
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75Were it not for its pat resolutions, Mister Foe might deserve a mention alongside such classic psycho-sexual thrillers as "Vertigo" and "Peeping Tom." Instead, Mackenzie has reined in the strangeness to deliver a conventional, if better than average, mystery.
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70May not be entirely original or entirely successful, but it's definitely fun to watch.
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The whole thing's poised uneasily somewhere between urban fairy tale and actual human psychodrama, never really landing in one place or the other.
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70If the extremity of Hallam's temperament tests the limits of our sympathy as well as our credulity, Mr. Bell's ability to seem by turns sweet and scary prevents us from losing interest entirely.
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70Tip-top performances, led by young British thesp Jamie Bell, and a deftly handled tone reflecting all the title teen's confused emotions make Hallam Foe a viewing delight.
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70Thanks mainly to Bell's abundant charisma, Hallam makes for a strangely likable antihero.
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70The emotions are as gritty as the Edinburgh locales, and the sex is dark, urgent, and deeply selfish.
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If you've been wondering what Billy Elliot would look like all grown up, naked or in a fetching frock, here's your chance.
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60This Scottish film often pushes for realism, though its stylish tones fall back on whimsy.
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60An intriguing rites-of-passage story with a delirious, skewed perspective and an almost palpable sexual pulse.
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Ultimately Mackenzie's tidy resolutions undercut the psychological depth, but as offbeat coming-of-age yarns go, Mister Foe has a commanding fleetness.
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60Mister Foe flirts too often with the unlikely and the foolish, yet there is something to admire in the nerve of its reckless characters, so uneasy in their skins.
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50The film disappoints particularly in relation to "Young Adam," an earlier picture about sexual obsession from writer-director David Mackenzie; this one's more in line with the creamy tones and surface readings of "Asylum."
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50Not a movie to cozy up to. The twisted tale is only mildly intriguing, worth seeing mainly for the striking performance of Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as Hallam Foe, a creepy teenage voyeur beset with an Oedipal complex.
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20Jamie Bell gives a watchable performance in this self-conscious, coming-of-age drama, though the film's overall effect is best described as David Lynch lite.
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GuilhermeS8The most loving story about the most stranger character of the 21'th Century's movies.
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