Tomato 8/10 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"The movie's strength isn't in the impact of what it reveals; it's in putting the starting points for all this polemic in one accessible place, now presented to a wide audience" |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"Features a nice ensemble in a story about family prejudice dynamics." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 4/10 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"The most endearing terms I might come up with for this film are 'dorky' and 'cute,' but 'cute' is never what a superhero movie aspires to be." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 4/10 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"This sequel is out, overall succumbing to the weaknesses of the first movie, which, once again, relegates it to sitting at the kids' table at the gathering of comic book movies." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 9/10 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"I'm starting to wish every auteur would go and make his or her own stop-motion animated flick; what a fantastic experiment that could be." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 10/10 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Made with a lot of love -- love for Sirk, love for detail, and love for the power of the movies." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"The film can be regarded from two angles: from the street-racing perspective and the plot perspective. Guess which one matters more? ... The real meat of the movie is in the racing scenes." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 8/10 |
Fateless (2006) |
"Plays out as a constant tug-of-war between what makes it trite and what makes it unique, although what makes it unique has the better chance of sticking with you." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 7/10 |
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) |
"[The] battle scenes, during which all normal physics go straight out the window, are exhilarating in a disorienting thrill-ride way." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 6/10 |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) |
"As a technical achievement [the characters] are astounding. It's too bad they weren't put into a plot that felt less hackneyed." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 3/10 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"The Italian mafioso -- we're so familiar with him now that these days we're apparently being encouraged to hug him." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 10/10 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"Those Pixar strengths -- story, humor, characters, and art ... shine through, more dependable than rising of the ocean tides." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 8/10 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"The movie is able to sail through familiar waters rather than sink under the weight of clichés." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 4/10 |
Firewall (2006) |
"The kind of movie that wears its cliches like bright flowers on a Hawaiian shirt." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 7/10 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"Although the intentions of the movie are noble and the tale is worth telling, I'm afraid the reverence with which Eastwood relates his story threatens to choke it." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) |
"While Hou's cinematic techniques are as sound as ever, this time it feels as if they're being used to peer into nothing of particular, specific significance." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Fog of War (2003) |
"The images and music combine with McNamara's voice and expressions to create a tapestry of a life lived toughly through a world that has looked over the edge at hell itself." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 9/10 |
Food, Inc. (2009) |
"It's a harsh feeling, but Food, Inc. does its job in just getting out the information that most of us probably want to ignore and shouldn't." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 6/10 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
"For a film that's been lauded for its daring display of full-frontal male nudity, I got the nagging feeling that it actually played things pretty safe." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Fountain (2006) |
"The tastiest fruit [Aronofsky's] talent has come to bear may be mainly an eye-stimulating array of pretty pictures." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 6/10 |
Fracture (2007) |
"A light psychological thriller that works better on a technical level than a thematic or character-centric one." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 4/10 |
Frailty (2002) |
"[God] ought to sue Bill Paxton for defamation of character." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 2/10 |
Freaky Friday (2003) |
"I'll bet my DVD collection that barely anyone's ire will be raised over the insensitivity shown to Asians in Freaky Friday. It deserves to be greeted with a fair degree of disgust." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 8/10 |
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) |
"If you must make a movie combining two series at which most people would turn up their noses, make it right for the people who wouldn't ... I think they made it right." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 6/10 |
Frida (2002) |
"Less worrying about covering all the drama in Frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 7/10 |
Friday Night Lights (2004) |
"What Friday Night Lights offers is the perspective that, for the people and young players caught up in this whirlwind, football simultaneously means everything and ultimately nothing." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 5/10 |
From Hell (2001) |
"Loaded with appealing gothic style and dread-laden atmosphere, but the story is incredibly dull." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 2/10 |
From Justin to Kelly (2003) |
"Why assemble a movie that the majority of American Idol's audience would be embarrassed to go see?" |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 7/10 |
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"Langella gives Nixon a chance at audience sympathy -- for everything you know and possibly hate about the man, you can see, through the performance, that third dimension." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 8/10 |
Frozen River (2008) |
"Realistically depicts the relationship between the allure of criminal activity and times of desperation." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 4/10 |
Full Frontal (2002) |
"It's too self-aware of its own irony. It makes sure the audience knows this and tries to be cute about the whole thing at the expense of its own characters, inviting us to laugh at them." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Splat 5/10 |
Funny People (2009) |
"If this movie were to be believed, I would conclude that the last people I'd ever want to hang out with are comedians." |
Jeffrey Chen |
Tomato 8/10 |
Futurama the Movie: Bender's Big Score (2007) |
"The movie employs all of the hallmarks that has made the show such a cult favorite. Amidst this, the movie retains its keenness of observation and sense of the profound." |
Jeffrey Chen |
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