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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttMost entertaining comic drama with a great turn by Jamie Bell.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenUnlike 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.
- 70VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyTip-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.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe whole thing's poised uneasily somewhere between urban fairy tale and actual human psychodrama, never really landing in one place or the other.
- 70The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIf 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.
- If you've been wondering what Billy Elliot would look like all grown up, naked or in a fetching frock, here's your chance.
- 60EmpireDamon WiseEmpireDamon WiseAn intriguing rites-of-passage story with a delirious, skewed perspective and an almost palpable sexual pulse.
- 60The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneMister 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.
- Ultimately Mackenzie's tidy resolutions undercut the psychological depth, but as offbeat coming-of-age yarns go, Mister Foe has a commanding fleetness.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigNot 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.