Henry Fool Critic Reviews
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Henry Fool is far and away writer-director Hal Hartley's best movie.Read the full review
Resonant examination of friendship, fame, cultural trends, and the creative process.Read the full review
This film aspires to be a meditation on (among other things) art, trust, loyalty, politics and popular culture. With utter simplicity, and with unexpectedly intense storytelling, it achieves all that and more.Read the full review
The result is a career milestone [for Hal Hartley] and a film that could become a landmark in American independent cinema.Read the full review
This film is the complete package, and offers a thoroughly satisfying two-plus hours in a darkened theater.Read the full review
Poetic, bawdy, contemplative, often side-wrenchingly funny and finally quite touching, this tale about a nerdy garbage man whose life is changed by an egocentric hobo philosopher is flawed only by its length.Read the full review
It remains complex, offbeat and occasionally inscrutable - and worth the work. [24 Jul 1998]Read the full review
Henry Fool, the fascinating and often infuriating new film from the idiosyncratic Hal Hartley. [24 Jul 1998]Read the full review
Writing ignites miracles in Henry Fool, and Hartley's exquisite control over his compositions and pacing makes the outrages, biological and otherwise, funnier than you might believe. [01 Jul 1998]Read the full review
You watch, you are absorbed, and from scene to scene, Henry Fool seems to be adding up, but then your hand closes on air. I am left unsure of my response - of any response.Read the full review
