Review: Auto Focus
Eddie Cantor once told Bob Crane, "likability is 90 percent of the battle." It seems to be 100 percent of Bob Crane's battle; there is nothing ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 10/25/02
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Review: AUTO FOCUS
The NY Times review of Auto Focus, a Paul Schrader film starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. Auto Focus movie trailer, showtimes, ...
The New York Times - A. O. Scott
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Review: Auto Focus
Auto Focus is the story of the rise and fall of actor Bob Crane. Just about everyone in America is familiar with Crane, or, more precisely, ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Sharp 'Focus'
Greg Kinnear (right), with co-star Rita Wilson, zooms in on the lurid life of "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane. AUTO FOCUS Razor-sharp biopic. ...
New York Post - Lou Lumenick - 10/18/02
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Ho-ga-an! put your pants on
If every cloud has a silver lining, the opposite is also true. And many of the best filmmakers have scratched that lining, finding sleaze beneath ...
Canoe.ca - JIM SLOTEK
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Review: AUTO FOCUS
Bob Crane, the star of the '60s TV sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," has gone down in show-biz history as an epic sexual libertine whose fascination with ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Editorial Review
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Review: AUTO FOCUS
In the early morning hours of June 29, 1978, someone broke into former- Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane's Arizona motel room and beat him to death ...
TV Guide - Ken Fox
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BBC - Films - review - Auto Focus
This real-life story follows TV star Bob Crane from happy family man to sex-obsessed has-been. Paul Schrader has a sixth sense for sleaze . ...
BBC - Nev Pierce
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Review: Auto Focus (2002)
Bob Crane was a sex addict. That s all one needs to know to understand why Paul Schrader would be interested in adapting Robert Graysmith s book, ...
CultureVulture.net - George Wu
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Review: Auto Focus
The life of Bob Crane was not without a surplus of drama: a Connecticut DJ who landed in Los Angeles for radio and occasional acting gigs, ...
Film Threat - Phil Hall - 10/12/02
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AUTO FOCUS Film Review
The rise and demise of actor Bob Crane still ranks as one of the most sensational tragedies in Hollywood history--a classic tale of showbiz ...
Boxoffice Online - Wade Major
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Review: Auto Focus
On "Hogan's Heroes," Bob Crane, the actor who played Hogan from 1965 to 1971, exuded a blinding blandness. Crane's still-unsolved 1978 murder ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: Auto Focus
"A day without sex is a day wasted." Paul Schrader's Auto Focus boils down to the following: "Bob 'Hogan' Crane was addicted to sex. ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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Review: Auto Focus
Greg Kinnear as Bob Crane and Maria Bello as Patricia Crane in Auto Focus. Bob Crane was a national hero -- the lovable, affable star of the ...
Palo Alto Online - Tyler Hanley
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Review: Auto Focus
Making stories about celebrities who fuck up their lives has become a kind of cottage industry these days. Tabloid magazines have thrived on it ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: Auto Focus
When Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" came out many years ago. Bob Crane had yet to be murdered. The crime would have been perfect for the ...
Greenwich Village Gazette - Eric Lurio
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Review: Auto Focus
What can be said of "Auto Focus" is what can be said of many film biographies: There are some great performances here, but why is this story being ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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Review: Auto Focus
Although the movie winds up around ten minutes too long and Schrader s occasional flights into fantasy don t quite come off, Auto Focus emerges as ...
Empire Online - Ian Freer
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'Auto' seduces but doesn't satisfy
The Boston Globe - Ty Burr, Globe Staff - 10/25/02
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Review: Auto Focus (2002)
Directed by Paul Schrader, produced by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Todd Rosken, Pat Dollard and Alicia Allain, written by Michael Gerbosi, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Phil Hall
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Review: Auto Focus (2002)
Back in the 60's Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) had it made. He was a successfully radio DJ and landed the lucrative role as the randy POW colonel in ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Robin Clifford - 10/24/02
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Review: Auto Focus (2002)
AUTO FOCUS (director: Paul Schrader; screenwriter: Michael Gerbosi/based on the book "The Murder of Bob Crane" by Robert Graysmith; ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dennis Schwartz
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Review: Auto Focus (2002)
Writer: Michael Gerbosi, book "The Murder of Bob Crane," by Robert Graysmith Cast: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Harvey S. Karten - 09/11/02
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Review: Auto Focus (2002)
Paul Schrader's Auto Focus, a look at the life of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, is another by-the-numbers, end-of-the-year biopic that would ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Jon Popick - 10/18/02
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Review: Auto Focus (2002)
I never watched "Hogan's Heroes" nor do I know much about the life and times of actor Bob Crane. Seeing this film, one is inclined to think that ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Jerry Saravia - 07/28/03
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