The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Most entertaining comic drama with a great turn by Jamie Bell.

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unlike any coming-of-age movie you've seen before. Equal parts sweet and perverse, this Scottish film is unpredictable in places where it might be twee, and subversively fanciful in others where it might be punishing.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White

Were it not for its pat resolutions, Mister Foe might deserve a mention alongside such classic psycho-sexual thrillers as "Vertigo" and "Peeping Tom." Instead, Mackenzie has reined in the strangeness to deliver a conventional, if better than average, mystery.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Especially worthwhile for the chemistry between Bell and Myles.

Village Voice

The whole thing's poised uneasily somewhere between urban fairy tale and actual human psychodrama, never really landing in one place or the other.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

If the extremity of Hallam's temperament tests the limits of our sympathy as well as our credulity, Mr. Bell's ability to seem by turns sweet and scary prevents us from losing interest entirely.

Variety by Derek Elley

Tip-top performances, led by young British thesp Jamie Bell, and a deftly handled tone reflecting all the title teen's confused emotions make Hallam Foe a viewing delight.

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

Thanks mainly to Bell's abundant charisma, Hallam makes for a strangely likable antihero.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

The emotions are as gritty as the Edinburgh locales, and the sex is dark, urgent, and deeply selfish.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

May not be entirely original or entirely successful, but it's definitely fun to watch.

Village Voice by Vadim Rizov

The whole thing's poised uneasily somewhere between urban fairy tale and actual human psychodrama, never really landing in one place or the other.

Portland Oregonian

If you've been wondering what Billy Elliot would look like all grown up, naked or in a fetching frock, here's your chance.

Los Angeles Times

Ultimately Mackenzie's tidy resolutions undercut the psychological depth, but as offbeat coming-of-age yarns go, Mister Foe has a commanding fleetness.

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

Mister Foe flirts too often with the unlikely and the foolish, yet there is something to admire in the nerve of its reckless characters, so uneasy in their skins.

Empire by Damon Wise

An intriguing rites-of-passage story with a delirious, skewed perspective and an almost palpable sexual pulse.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

Not a movie to cozy up to. The twisted tale is only mildly intriguing, worth seeing mainly for the striking performance of Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as Hallam Foe, a creepy teenage voyeur beset with an Oedipal complex.