Big Fan Critic Reviews
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The movie is an unblinking look at the hidden (or perhaps not so hidden) pathology of American sports mania.Read the full review
Starring an ideally cast Patton Oswalt in the title role, Big Fan is a poignant, dead-on character study, an examination of a crisis in the life of the most die-hard of die-hard New York Giants football fans.Read the full review
A bleakly funny character study of a very particular species of urban fauna - the sports radio call-in fanatic - Big Fan’ is compulsively watchable.Read the full review
One of the more thought-provoking sports movies I've seen.Read the full review
Because the audience isn’t privy to the hero’s thoughts, the final 15 minutes or so of Big Fan are white-knuckle.Read the full review
A spasmodically funny and bleak film about the love that speaks its name.Read the full review
Sad, funny and painfully honest.Read the full review
Comedian Patton Oswalt triumphantly nails every comic and dramatic nuance as Paul Aufiero, a New York Giants obsessive who has long ago moved from fan to fanatic.Read the full review
Structured as a comedy, albeit a dark one.Read the full review
It's an unsettling, "Taxi Driver"-like character study that shows the underside to hero worship and the primal world of professional football.Read the full review
