Auto Focus

Name: Auto Focus
Genre: Biography, Drama, Crime
Released: October 18, 2002
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Willem Dafoe

2002

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Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 18, 2002 | R

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

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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Roger Ebert

The 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. Read full review

Steve Davis

The set and art direction are superb, evoking Sixties and Seventies décor with a dazzling precision. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Certainly the movie is one of Schrader's most accomplished, and most entertaining, but there's something cold and unforgiving about his vision, delivered with a severity that only a bred-in-the-bone Calvinist could muster. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Schrader directs with a very smooth hand, providing a good-natured and frequently amusing spin to eventually grim material that aptly reflects the protagonist's almost unfailing good humor. Read full review

Rick Groen

When the bloody climax comes, we look on apathetically, as desensitized to the violence as a pornographer is to sex. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

It's a clammy, depressing movie, but not a very illuminating one. Read full review

David Edelstein

Schrader is like a reformed addict who isn't even honest enough to show what once gave him pleasure. He's the most dangerous kind of crusader. In Auto Focus, he makes you hate sex and movies equally. Read full review

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