Splat |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"Fair and balanced, as Fox News might say, this is not." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Farewell My Concubine (1993) |
"Sweeping, self-important and only moderately stirring." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Fear City (1984) |
"Has a bitterness and cynicism that's grimily, perversely romantic." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"An amusing and affecting ode to professional sports fandom." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
La Fille coupée en deux (2007) |
"Chabrol's familiar critique of the bourgeoisie is dispiritingly lethargic and simple." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"Vapid, pointless and wholly predictable." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Fingers (1978) |
"A penetrating portrait of tortured, impotent masculinity and the foolishness of attempting to be something you’re not." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Firefox (1982) |
"As a spy adventure, the movie is close to abysmal." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
The Five Obstructions (2004) |
"Fascinating (and oft-times infuriating)." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Flanders (2006) |
"[A] stilted, affected term-paper treatise on the human condition." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) |
"Gets exciting mileage out of examining male codes of honor and behavior." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Flightplan (2005) |
"A disposable B-movie without much excitement or ingenuity." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
The Flower of My Secret (1996) |
"Dramatizes the contentious relationship between fiction and reality." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Flowers of Shanghai (1998) |
"Sympathetically depicts ... consuming, love-sick ennui." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Flushed Away (2006) |
"Like a mouse on a spinning wheel, it's a film that moves at a breakneck pace but ultimately goes nowhere." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
The Fog (1980) |
"Creates a sense of near-apocalyptic gloom." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
The Fog of War (2003) |
"A fascinating look into the mind of one of 20th century America's most controversial military figures" |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"The omnipresent sense of having already been here and done this ... permeates For Your Consideration." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Forever Strong (2008) |
"Contrived corniness abounds." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Forty Shades of Blue (2005) |
"The magnificent Korzun ... [delivers] a performance of internalized anguish." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Friends With Money (2006) |
"Fails to feature protagonists who boast more than a figurative purpose." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"In terms of condescending narrative handholding, Frost/Nixon has no 2008 rival." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Fudoh: The New Generation (1997) |
"Comparatively tame when compared to Takeshi Miike’s later shock cinema classics." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
The Funeral (1996) |
"A psychologically strung-out tale stuffed full of ideas and inspired moments." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Funny Games (2008) |
"Haneke is a hypocrite who wants to censure anyone who likes fictionalized cruelty but nonetheless takes great pleasure in punishing his innocent upper-class protagonists" |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Funny Ha Ha (2005) |
"Bujalski's subtly well-constructed film reveals a charmingly idiosyncratic sincerity." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Funny People (2009) |
"In its home stretch, Funny People's action drags so unnecessarily that it ... drains any impact from its refreshingly pragmatic view of second chances." |
Nick Schager |
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