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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The movie is an unblinking look at the hidden (or perhaps not so hidden) pathology of American sports mania. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    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 full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    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 full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    One of the more thought-provoking sports movies I've seen. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    A spasmodically funny and bleak film about the love that speaks its name. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    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 full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Sad, funny and painfully honest. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    It's an unsettling, "Taxi Driver"-like character study that shows the underside to hero worship and the primal world of professional football. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    It's a small, peculiar film, one unlikely to appeal much to women, non-sports fans and mainstreamers, but its uncomfortable comic insights should win it a loyal following. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Siegel's depiction of the film's supporting characters too often borders on caricature. By the movie's strained, overheated climax, it's clear that Siegel, in his directing debut, is less interested in his protagonist as a character capable of transformation than as a human petri dish of futility and pathology. Read full review

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