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(1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1   2/4 "Everybody's trying too hard--or not hard enough"   Film Freak Central   Bill Chambers 4/5 "Hartley pretzels his faux spy plot into "Syriana"-like knots and ends up with a fascinating if somewhat flawed absurdist romp."   CinemaBlend.com   Brian Holcomb C "The picture is a misfire, but not a crash, and signals a newfound desire on Hartley's part to return to his roots and explore how he used to conduct business."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf "A fun whirligig of a thriller that comes dangerously close to killing the buzz from its idiosyncratic delights, but manages to survive (mostly) intact."   Film Journal International   Chris Barsanti D ""Fay Grim" is the most inarticulate and grueling of all Hal Hartley's films, and a complete waste of time."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Fay Grim is less concerned with the details of contemporary spy-craft and global deception than with broader moral questions."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs D "Arch, annoyingly complicated and insufferably smug, this will appeal only to those for whom Hartley and Posey can do no wrong."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A wild and wacky movie about international politics, terrorism, and the antics of an American trickster."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "Facetious and acutely stagy to the point of preposterous."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth "A bizarre yet highly entertaining romp."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick C- "...while Fay Grim has initial, humorous promise it devolves into a convoluted morass...the search for Henry is far more interesting that the finding of him."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "Clever, fast-paced and surprisingly moving, Fay Grim takes a page from Alfred Hitchcock's Americans-abroad thrillers, in which the glossy surface lies lightly over betrayal and disillusionment."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh C+ "I would have liked to see what Hal Hartley's latest would have been like if he kept Henry [Fool} an enigmatic legend rather than a real, not very likable character/actor."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 8/10 "Hal Hartley brings back Parker Posey as the spy who knows too little in this quick-witted follow-up to his 1998 "Henry Fool.""   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson C+ "Too hip to play it straight and too cool to resort to an actual story, [director Hal] Hartley turns the whole rambling spy game into a puzzle box..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1