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

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Henry Fool is far and away writer-director Hal Hartley's best movie. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Resonant examination of friendship, fame, cultural trends, and the creative process. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    The result is a career milestone [for Hal Hartley] and a film that could become a landmark in American independent cinema. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Janet Maslin

    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 full review

  • 80
    Washington Post |

    It remains complex, offbeat and occasionally inscrutable - and worth the work. [24 Jul 1998] Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Derek Elley

    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 full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Henry Fool, the fascinating and often infuriating new film from the idiosyncratic Hal Hartley. [24 Jul 1998] Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    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 full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    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 full review

  • 0
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    I found it insufferably fatuous and damned near interminable. [26 Jun 1998] Read full review

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