By Hook or by Crook: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

62%

RottenTomatoes: 15 reviews

Dave Kehr New York Times (Top Critic)

60

By Hook or by Crook is, like its principal characters, a bit messy and maladroit but not without a certain charm.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

The title ... must be alluding to the possibility that large parts of the movie are begged, borrowed, and stolen from early Gus Van Sant.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Melissa Anderson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Refreshingly, this tale of stone butch blues is rarely treatise-like; sexuality never devolves into agitprop.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Ted Shen Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Remarkable debut feature.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 4 years ago
V.A. Musetto New York Post (Top Critic)

25

It quickly becomes tiresome and cliche-ridden -- not to mention depressing and pointless.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Film Threat

50

Full Review » 6 years ago
Mary Brennan Seattle Times

75

A ragged but endearing buddy movie.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Moira Sullivan FilmFestivals.com

75

It's a buddy movie, albeit the queerest buddy movie ever that makes Midnight Cowboy look tame in comparison.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Merle Bertrand Film Threat

50

A weirdly compelling train wreck of a film that's as raw around the edges as its protagonists.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Boston Phoenix

Full Review » 10 years ago
David Noh Film Journal International

Three weeks may be the ostensible time frame for the plot, but sitting through this nauseatingly whimsical and pointless confection feels like a downright eternity.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Ken Fox TV Guide's Movie Guide

50

An appealing, if decidedly unconventional, buddy picture.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

40

Rather staid and uninteresting road trip.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jon Popick Planet Sick-Boy

70

One of the best independently financed bank-robbery flicks since Bottle Rocket, despite the complete absence of any actual bank robberies.
Full Review » 10 years ago