Auto Focus

The movie's themes are aptly captured in the double entendre of the title, suggesting both Crane's narcissism and the video technology that abets it...a lot of Auto Focus is coolly funny--it's a slyly satiric comedy of '60s manners.

Another probing case history of male pathology from one of the most consistently interesting American film-makers alive.

An exemplary Schrader work, a painfully funny and misanthropic treatise on American masculinity and its sexualised image.

Kinnear delivers an excellent performance and the delirious imagery lingers for months.

Schrader really isn't interested in Crane except as the straw man for his moral lessons about sin and sexuality and the nature of celebrity.

When you get to the final, haunting line of “men gotta have fun,” you know exactly why this is a Paul Schrader picture.

Part biopic and part meditation on sexual addiction...

A distant, even sterile, yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.

Much more could have been done with this story. Schrader insists for some reason that certain things about Crane had to remain a "mystery" ... why not illuminate a life and time to the greatest extent one can?