A sophisticated, sometimes intentionally silly spy thriller of international intrigue, Fay Grim charts the history of American foreign policy while commenting on current global complications with wink and a nudge.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Fay Grim falls victim to its own worried hyperactivity; it shuts you out with chattery paranoia. Hartley wants us to see the big picture, but he forgets we need artists like him to bring it into focus.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
The movie opens with wit and dash, then devolves into a rather generic spy thriller.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
It's not that Fay Grim isn't amusing. It is, in that deadpan, skewed way that indie auteur Hartley's pics always are. But there's not much else going on here.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The result is that we feel deliberately distanced from the film. It is not so much an exercise in style as an exercise in search of a style. The story doesn't involve us because we can't follow it, and we doubt if the characters can, either.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Too light-headed to qualify as satire, too poker-faced to register as comedy, Fay Grim belongs in its own stylistic niche: the Hal Hartley film.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
The faux espionage plot, with its winks at terrorism, is really just a convoluted plea for the relevance of precious indie artistes (i.e., Hal Hartley).Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
As "Henry Fool's" belated sequel, Fay Grim seems nearly an act of desperation.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
The trouble is, this is Hartley all over again. What seemed cutting edge and sharp in the 1990s -- the smart-alecky references to obscure filmmakers (Werner Herzog, Andrei Konchalovsky), the self-mocking tone in the actors' voices, the overall sense that this movie is subverting itself -- feels rehashed and old.Read Full Review »
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