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.

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