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Matt Dillon's performance is the highlight of this somewhat slow but fascinating portrayal of Charles Bukowski's alter-ego.
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The transplant didn't take in Barfly, and it works no better here in Factotum. In each case, the baying of the boozehounds just seems repetitious and banal -- the noise endures but the joy is gone. December 1, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The transplant didn't take in Barfly, and it works no better here in Factotum. In each case, the baying of the boozehounds just seems repetitious and banal -- the noise endures but the joy is gone.
Rick Groen
Quite dull, truth be told. As good as Dillon and Taylor are in their roles, making us side with them even as we despise them, there's not a whole lot that happens in a life ruled by the bottle, the butt and the shag. December 1, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Quite dull, truth be told. As good as Dillon and Taylor are in their roles, making us side with them even as we despise them, there's not a whole lot that happens in a life ruled by the bottle, the butt and the shag.
Peter Howell
This is one of the best movies of the year, and one of the two or three best performances. September 22, 2006 | Rating: 5/5
This is one of the best movies of the year, and one of the two or three best performances.
Roger Moore
Factotum is right up there with Barfly as a distillation of Bukowskian badinage, despite the current film's sketchier provenance. September 20, 2006
Factotum is right up there with Barfly as a distillation of Bukowskian badinage, despite the current film's sketchier provenance.
Andrew Sarris
Dillon is better now that he's settled into sturdy middle age. He makes more sense; I never got him as a Tiger Beat centerfold. September 15, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Dillon is better now that he's settled into sturdy middle age. He makes more sense; I never got him as a Tiger Beat centerfold.
Amy Biancolli
I just didn't think the comic touches were very subtle and very funny and the other stuff we've just seen before. September 5, 2006
I just didn't think the comic touches were very subtle and very funny and the other stuff we've just seen before.
Richard Roeper
Factotum underplays the truism that we all have a little Bukowski in us. A parting shot sums up a lifetime of unsettled scores. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
Factotum underplays the truism that we all have a little Bukowski in us. A parting shot sums up a lifetime of unsettled scores.
David Lamble
A movie is not good simply for having a good foundation. [Full Review in Spanish] June 28, 2019 | Full Review…
A movie is not good simply for having a good foundation. [Full Review in Spanish]
Alberto Abuín
The fact that Chinaski can be ably transplanted from the '40s to the early 21st century, and from LA to MN, speaks to his endurance as American literature's preeminent antihero, and Dillon seems to have a firm grip on this notion. March 24, 2014 | Full Review…
The fact that Chinaski can be ably transplanted from the '40s to the early 21st century, and from LA to MN, speaks to his endurance as American literature's preeminent antihero, and Dillon seems to have a firm grip on this notion.
Josh Tyson
A slouching portrait of Bukowski that's likeable, if superficial. November 7, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
A slouching portrait of Bukowski that's likeable, if superficial.
Luke Goodsell
Factotum is an existentialist indie film about the loneliness of the human condition, which is normally the cinematic equivalent of having a hole drilled in your head. March 22, 2011 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Factotum is an existentialist indie film about the loneliness of the human condition, which is normally the cinematic equivalent of having a hole drilled in your head.
Joshua Starnes
An understated and atmospheric portrait of the artist as a young booze-hound built around a quiet but magnetic performance by Matt Dillon. August 20, 2010 | Full Review…
An understated and atmospheric portrait of the artist as a young booze-hound built around a quiet but magnetic performance by Matt Dillon.
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