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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious, and smart-stupid. Just like you after four beers, and me after eight. Read full review
Like the film itself, Mr. Dillon's performance works through understatement. Read full review
The film looks great on the screen, and Hamer has commissioned a terrific musical score from Kristin Asbjornsen, who has set a few of Bukowski's poems to haunting, jazzy music. Read full review
The result is a surprisingly satisfying film, true to Bukowski and itself, a work that manages to make the man and his profane world more palatable without compromising on who he was and what he stood for. Read full review
A grim and sometimes funny examination of life on the margins and of a singular artist's world. Read full review
Matt Dillon is pitch-perfect as Bukowski's alter ego Hank Chinaski. Read full review
Looks steam-cleaned, and that can't be right. Read full review
Bukowski fans - and they are legion - may fill in the blanks from their own knowledge of the writer and find Factotum a more complete character study than it really is. For the rest of us, there are a few laughs - and a corking hangover. Read full review
Arguably one of the best adaptations of Bukowski's work, even compared with Bukowski's own script for 1997's "Barfly," deadpan timing and ace perfs bring out the morose humor and surprising warmth in the often miserabilist scribe's voice. Read full review
It's too bad that the film was directed by the Norwegian minimalist Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories), who makes a fetish of building scenes around silence. Read full review
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… a lot of nothing. Read full review