Splat |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"[Miller] barely registers -- she's lightweight in an elemental way. Her utter lack of screen presence is the most monumental thing about her." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Factotum (2006) |
"Dillon delivers with a cocky denseness that is at once hilarious and poignant..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
The Faculty (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"[W]onderful, messy, angry, bitter, funny, glorious... The film is loud and opinionated and even crude sometimes, and thank god for that." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"[A]s nasty and misanthropic a piece of work as, oh, the entire genre of nasty-and-misanthropic 'romantic' 'comedies' we've been bombarded with in recent years... half of which seem to star Matthew McConaughey..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Fall (2008) |
"[A] thoroughly unique experience, one that is wildly cinematic in that it never lets you forget you're watching a movie, and yet one that is so enrapturing that you get lost in it..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fall Into Me (2006) |
"Even grading on the Implausible Romantic Comedy curve, this trite and nonchalantly indifferent film is forced and so lacking in any kind of romance that it's a trial to endure..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fallen (1998) |
"Ultimately, Fallen fails to spook, and creepiness is what it should have had to offer in the first place." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fame (1980) |
"Infectious and moving and sometimes bittersweet." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fame - The Complete First Season (1982) |
"[P]ositively charming: the earnest enthusiasm of the kids, their yearning to find themselves and their talents, their propensity for bursting into song at the slightest provocation..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Family Bonds |
"There's a gritty authenticity to this rough-edged reality show..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Family Business (1989) |
"[S]urprisingly compelling..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Family Guy - Volume 1: Seasons 1 & 2 (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest (2007) |
"[T]here's something deeply, weirdly profound in both the intense love and the pop-culture philosophizing on show here..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Family Man (2000) |
"Sure, [it's] pop pabulum -- but isn't that what people want? No one wants to think too hard at the movies, anyway." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"[H]omey and warm and comfortable and family style and like a big plate of hot-from-the-oven Christmas cookies spiked with walnuts to cut the sweetness." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fanny Hill (2008) |
"[I]f you're looking for something pornographic in this BBC adaptation of the novel, forget it, mister. You might just get a lesson in female backbone and autonomy, though." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Fantasia (1940) |
"Remains a masterpiece of animation today." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"A rapturous, transporting experience the likes of which we don't see in the multiplex often enough." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fantastic Four (1994) |
"One 'action-packed' story is fairly indistinguishable from another..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"[L]ike a kiddie ride when I’ve been primed to expect the biggest, baddest, meanest emotional-roller coaster of a sexy action movie when it’s all about guys in tights." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"[D]umb and tedious and puny and petty and idiotic and wrapped up so tightly in its own acquiescence of its own irrelevance that even the end of all life on Earth can be no big deal... Don't get your spandex in a bunch, dude." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"[T]ouching and funny, and magically absurd and at the same time pointedly real... genius..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Fantasticks (1995) |
"[S]imultaneously flat and cartoonish..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"[Close] in its intent, in its daring, and in its success to Raiders of the Lost Ark... it’s the unshakeable love of a damn fine moviegoing experience that gives both films their real meaning." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fascination (2005) |
"Laughably cheap and cheesy..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"[D]amn if there ain't enough street racing in this here street racing movie..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"It’s dumb as a post, sure, but man, does it get your heart pounding and the adrenaline racing through your bloodstream." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Black... makes the formerly fast and furious Paul Walker look like Kenneth Branagh..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"To say that Fast Food Nation the movie is less horrifying than the book is accurate, but not fair to the movie, which is plenty horrifying enough.... Linklater puts a human face on a situation that is so huge that it just about paralyzes you." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"A bittersweet reminder to movie lovers of the enormous variety of the human adventure that film usually ignores." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fat Actress - The Complete First Season (2005) |
"Hilariously catty and supremely mean..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"[L]aunches itself into the stratosphere of idiocy when it ends up making itself entirely moot..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fateless (2006) |
"[L]ooks anew at familiar horrors through adolescent eyes, silently voicing the eternal teenage contention that adults are idiots and have hopelessly screwed up the world..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series (2004) |
"[F]requently bizarre and always tiresome..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fear X (2003) |
"[A] thoroughly riveting slow-burn of a psychological thriller..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fearless (2006) |
"As energetically corporeal as it is touchingly spiritual." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fearless (2006) |
"To see Jet Li battle a boxer, a swordsman, a wrestler, and other non-martial-arts warriors is kinda like that age-old theoretical geeks' game come to life: Who would win if Superman fought Mighty Mouse?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Feast (2006) |
"This is 88 minutes of pure snark-fueled adrenaline rush, a nonstop disgusting grossout of meaty, liquid carnality that is both hilarious and uncomfortable..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Female Misbehavior (1992) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Female Misbehavior (1992) |
"Deliciously shocking and wonderfully radical..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) |
"Matthew Broderick is strikingly absent from this new edition of his defining movie." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Festival (2006) |
"The targets are obvious and easy -- neurotic filmmakers, trust-fund kids, self-involved actors -- but the touch is light enough to keep this made-for-cable mockumentary series from devolving into its own kind of self-parody." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Fever Pitch (1996) |
"[T]ouchingly awkward and emotionally genuine..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"[A] loud, obnoxious collection of pratfalls, testicle jokes, and vomit-eating dogs..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Fierce Creatures (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Fifth Element (1997) |
"These kinds of attitude are really getting old. If you're gonna be a pig, at least be original about it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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