Splat 1/6 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Factory Girl’s greatest crime is transforming a scene and a personality that were all about movement and flamboyant brilliance into nothing but inert ventriloquism." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/6 |
Fados (2009) |
"Carlos Saura’s documentary on the Portuguese musical tradition of fado is an inviting and immersive experience, the third piece of a song-and-dance triptych that also includes Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998)." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 5/6 |
The Fall (2008) |
"Like the fantasy it most resembles, Terry Gilliam’s vastly underrated The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, it has a zing of quixotic optimism -- and the baroque beauty of creative decadence." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 5/6 |
Fallen Angels (Hong Kong) (1996) |
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David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Falling (2007) |
"Part feel-bad cinema and part female-bonding session, Barbara Albert’s Big Chill–ish melodrama gathers together five former schoolmates who meet up again at a professor’s funeral." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fame (2009) |
"There are enough hoary soap-operatic plottings for a thousand Gossip Girls (emotionally distant parents, almost-rapes, suicide attempts), yet Tancharoen individualizes each crisis so that no one character comes off as a mock-universal surrogate." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 3/6 |
Family Law (2006) |
"With its slack plotting, the film itself feels as aimless as its main character." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Fanboys (2009) |
"At the risk of incurring some serious Jedi wrath, let’s just say that you’ve seen better road movies, ones that don’t resort to yet another accidental traipse into a gay bar or mistaken-hooker-in–Las Vegas scene." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 5/6 |
Fanny and Alexander (1982) |
"Our young protagonist will be obsessed with death and see ghosts everywhere. Never has the prison of childhood seemed so inescapable." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/6 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"The performances are plywooden, the cornball visual gags are groanworthy, and Tim Story still can’t direct his way out a sack with a map." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"At last, Anderson has made a film that is nothing but a succession of autumn-gold shoebox dioramas." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 67/100 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Visually ravishing, subtly provocative, both entertainment and dissertation." |
Mike D'Angelo |
- |
Farmingville (2004) |
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Ben Walters |
Splat |
Fascination (2005) |
"We can't stay interested, much less fascinated." |
Mark Salisbury |
Splat 2/6 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"Frankly, you’ve played better video games." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
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Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
The Favor (2008) |
"Writer-director Eva Aridjis has a flat style that’s frankly numbing; Wood tries valiantly, but he and Donowho are both dragged down by the script." |
Hank Sartin |
Splat 2/6 |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"Recycling espionage-a-go-go conventions while namechecking global conflicts doesn’t shed light on any state we’re in; it just feels fatigued." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) |
"These types of multidirector, mix-and-match affairs always end up a mere sum of their scattershot parts." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
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David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Felon (2008) |
"Does a better-than-average job of depicting the pressures on guards, trainees and families on the outside." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 52/100 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"Boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy, kinky fun." |
Mike D'Angelo |
- |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
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Trevor Johnston |
Splat 2/6 |
Fido (2007) |
"A zombie comedy that feels late to the bloody punch bowl. Yet the real hindrance here isn’t bad timing, but the movie’s tiresomely chirpy 1950s Father Knows Best setting, which wears out its welcome in seconds." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Fierce People (2007) |
"What a bad trip." |
Tom Beer |
Splat 1/5 |
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009) |
"God forbid anything even slightly suspenseful or significant should happen without revved-up ’80s Irish rock blasting over the soundtrack." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Fighting (2009) |
"Once you start tugging on a corner of the plot, the whole thing unravels." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/6 |
Fighting for Life (2008) |
"The result isn’t pro-war, just pro cleaning up the mess, one amputee at a time." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
Film Ist: A Girl & A Gun (2009) |
"Between borrowed scenes of vintage melodramas, Kinsey Institute research and rarer-than-rare archival treasures, a loose story of original sin insinuates itself into your subsconscious." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Filth and Wisdom (2008) |
"Filth and Wisdom feels like the kind of airless, desperately chic movie written by and for young people living on their own for the first time." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
- |
The Final Cut (2004) |
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Ben Walters |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Final Destination (2009) |
"Even a mediocre FD is better than more Jigsaw." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Finding Amanda (2008) |
"Opening with a scene from a bad sitcom that turns out to be indistinguishable from the rest of the movie, Finding Amanda limps before it’s even out of the gate." |
Joshua Land |
- |
Finding Eleazar (2004) |
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Dave Calhoun |
Splat 1/6 |
Finishing the Game (2007) |
"What little potential there is ends up squandered within nanoseconds; as both a parody and a polemic, the film is finished before it’s barely begun." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Fire Under the Snow (2008) |
"This short but powerful doc provides a human element and historical perspective for armchair protestors who probably couldn’t find Tibet on a map—but because Adam Yauch and other celebrities care about the issue, know only that “they’re for it.”" |
Drew Toal |
Splat 2/6 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"If today’s modern cheerleader -- half porn star, half girl next door -- distracts viewers from the game, shouldn’t the modern cheerleader movie distract us from a lack of minor incidentals like believable plot points and honest comic zingers?" |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Firehouse Dog (2007) |
"We’re forced to endure plenty of scatological gags and treacly exchanges between Shane and his distant dad as the film imparts an obvious message about the frivolity of stardom." |
Erin Clements |
Splat 3/6 |
Firemen's Ball (1968) |
"The nonprofessional actors, hammy slapstick and overwrought politics make it a better conversation piece than viewing experience." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 3/6 |
First Basket (2008) |
"Students of the game will find the archival footage interesting, but casual filmgoers will likely be frustrated by the slavish on-court devotion to unflashy fundamentals and the inexcusable lack of dunking." |
Drew Toal |
- |
First Daughter (2004) |
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Derek Adams |
Tomato 5/6 |
The First Saturday in May (2008) |
"In mere moments, the film evokes the whole of Americana. The bell rings, and your heart is already in your throat. Essential." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
First Snow (2007) |
"Like a first snow, Mark Fergus's psychological thriller is unpredictable, but doesn't quite stick." |
Erin Clements |
- |
Fish Without A Bicycle |
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Ben Walters |
Tomato 5/6 |
Fitzcarraldo (1982) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/5 |
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) |
"Five Minutes of Heaven becomes less interested in rehashing nationalistic conflicts than in the scars left by righteousness, something both Nesbitt and Neeson hammer home with every thousand-yard stare." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Flakes (2007) |
"Some cute moments pepper the inane plot, but Flakes doesn’t have much snap, crackle or pop." |
Drew Toal |
Tomato 3/5 |
Flame & Citron (2008) |
"It’s hard to argue with such primal filmgoing pleasures, especially once the film introduces notions of how good people lose their morality during wartime." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Flanders (2006) |
"A soul also lurks underneath the shocks. When the director turns the most overused three-word phrase into a devastating reinstatement of humanity, you’re quickly reminded of why [director] Dumont was so lauded in the first place." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Flannel Pajamas (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Land |
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