Both thriller and comedy, Hallam Foe is an enticing coming-of-age film about love, grief and redemption. Directed by David Mackenzie, and based on the novel by Peter Jinks, it’s dominated by Jamie Bell’s exciting performance as the title character - a screwed-up teenager addicted to voyeurism. A humorous current runs through the film, but at its heart Hallam Foe is something of a thriller. Echoes of Hitchcock permeate the film’s style and narrative. The film unravels, like Hitchock’s movies, as part mystery, part thriller, and part romance.
- Sarah Cronin, Electric Sheep magazine.

He lives in a treehouse festooned with wall-sized pictures of his dead mother. He sneaks out in the dead of night to spy on his neighbours. He wears a badger pelt for a hat and draws lipstick circles around his nipples. Suffice to say that if Jamie Bell were looking for a character to erase the lingering image of Billy Elliot from the public consciousness, he could hardly have picked one better than the titular hero of this deliciously twisted rites-of-passage yarn from Young Adam director David Mackenzie.
- Neil Smith, Total Film.