Tomato |
Face (2004) |
"A film with visual flair, musical inspiration and dramatic gravity. From the top to the bottom of the cast list, there are performances rich in detail and intelligence." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"Essentially, it is a love story, but it's one that both cynics and romantics can embrace." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Why should we care about Edie Sedgwick? Factory Girl, fatally, can't find a reason." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"While the acting is good, the narrative is flat and repetitious. The director doesn't connect the scenes into a meaningful character study." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"When Moore is willing to forget his personal animosity for a moment, his film regains its amazing power." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
The Fall of Fujimori (2006) |
"It never loses sight of the grim reality behind Fujimori's eccentricities, or the thousands of people arrested, kidnapped, raped, tortured, executed or, simply, 'disappeared.'" |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fame (2009) |
"Pleasant, undemanding entertainment for drama-club kids and the people who love them -- a family-friendly salute to young performing artists." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"Good acting only goes so far to salvage a bad script." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fanboys (2009) |
"Unfortunately, the filmmakers forget that the most important part of an in-joke is the joke." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"The comic book adventure is a fun, escapist change of pace from all the politically weighted popcorn fare on the scene this season." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Compared with its predecessor, the new movie contains less silliness to offend purists. At the same time, there isn't much to thrill anyone, either." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"Dahl’s adult approach to children merges beautifully with the filmmaker’s child’s-eye view of adults." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"People who want nothing more out of a movie than an extended rap video -- there's lots of hip-hop, close-ups of cars, and women in shiny tiny shorts -- may be satisfied. But this movie isn't much more than a re-do of the first film in the series." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Unlike the campy 2001 Vin Diesel vehicle that started it all, what's missing in this third incarnation is any sense of fun, overrun by the forced seriousness of a soap opera mistaking itself for serious drama." |
Steven Snyder |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Indigestible." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"With its chronic product placement, including a sledgehammer ad for the original series on DVD, Fat Albert seems to center on helping kids become better shoppers rather than better people." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fateless (2006) |
"There's a great movie in Fateless, but it's the second half of a double-feature. And the first feature is one we've seen before." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"The feeling of the original film has been lost." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Fear and Trembling (2004) |
"The delicacy of the film comes from the fine performances, particularly Kaori Tsuji as Fubuki." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Fearless (2006) |
"A pretentious biopic about a Chinese sports legend." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"What's promised to be a feast ends up as only a wan TV dinner." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Festival Express (2004) |
"A wild, lobe-bending ride." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"The Curse of the Bambino lives. And by now, it's spread to the backlot." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fido (2007) |
"Fido does offer a good number of laughs, along with a healthy serving of gore to satisfy horror fans." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fighting (2009) |
"There's a better movie inside it struggling to get out." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"When Gooding and Knowles appear together, they drain off energy like batteries hooked in reverse." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat |
The Final Cut (2004) |
"It's not quite as smart as it thinks it is." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"The plot has more holes in it than the victims, but the shocks make up for the flaws. Don't think, just watch, and expect a wild ride." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"You can't build a modern-day Crucible out of one crook's refusal to rat out a bunch of pimps and loan sharks." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"Constantly delights and refreshes the eye -- it's a summer vacation in itself." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat 1/4 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"Excuse me, I hear someone at the gates. Must be the barbarians, here at last." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Firewall (2006) |
"Those who don't spend enough time watching computer screens at work, however, can see more of them in Firewall, starring grumpy Harrison Ford as the head of digital security for a mid-sized Seattle bank." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
First Daughter (2004) |
"If you have a 10-year-old desperate to see a movie this weekend, you might do worse." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
The Five Obstructions (2004) |
"It's a game of cinematic Survivor that takes on broader meaning, exploring film as a mode of self-expression and the latent insecurity that drives artists to deliver works of greatness." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"The clichés undermine the power of the story." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Flash of Genius (2008) |
"Although it's competently made... Flash of Genius contains no spark of life at all." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Flavors (2004) |
"By the end the whole thing feels a little like those ubiquitous $10.95 all-you-can-eat Indian lunch buffets. You can't walk away denying that it was extensive -- or even filling. But neither can you particularly remember any of the dishes you were served." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Flawless (2007) |
"This is supposed to be a caper movie. Shouldn't it have a heroine who looks as if she could, you know, conceivably, caper?" |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Flicka (2006) |
"A movie which seems designed to do nothing more than feature some pretty pictures of horses and possibly move a few units of a tie-in soundtrack." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
"A painfully incompetent remake of a 1965 James Stewart adventure." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) |
"This Red Balloon is gorgeously photographed, and finely acted; like the first film, it gives its plaything a real, solid dimensionality. But despite its title, it never really soars." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Flightplan (2005) |
"The plot, once you have time to think about it, should so obviously never have been cleared for takeoff." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"The 73-year-old Chabrol has dashed off a near-abstract but infinitely intriguing formulation on guilt, recurrence and the perpetual present." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat |
Flyboys (2006) |
"The high-altitude combat is thrilling, and aviation buffs will thrill to all the pretty biplanes sailing through the clouds. But the characters are corny and the situations are clichéd." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
The Fog (2005) |
"Lock your doors. Bolt your windows. And for heaven's sake, stay away from the multiplex." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
The Fog of War (2003) |
"Morris has always engaged audiences -- and outraged stuffy Oscar voters -- by bringing the full range of narrative filmmaking to his nonfiction films. He doesn't stint here." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
A Fond Kiss (2004) |
"A small movie, told in a familiar way, and it fails to draw the big picture it could. But it does provide one unusual, and very striking sketch of two lives in crisis, and one community in transition." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"You would expect heady fun from Guest and company as they parody themselves, but the movie is considerably weaker than past efforts." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) |
"Chan seems to be having fun in a comic part that, unlike his Rush Hour paydays, doesn't make him the butt of ethnic jokes. Li is as stalwart as ever." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
"Like most of Apatow's productions -- heck, most of his heroes -- Forgetting Sarah Marshall is big and sloppy and too willing to settle for being just good enough. But like them too, it's funny. And it grows on you." |
Stephen Whitty |
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