Tomato 8/10 |
Face (2009) |
"To those of use who know and love his movies, it has a pervasive sense of the familiar... not at all revelatory or exciting. It's a fine movie, if you like this sort of thing (most people don't)." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Fall (2008) |
"The narrative is nothing more than a framework for scenes of unforgettable visual art..it still comes across as the cinema's best exploration of how stories are made in many a year." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Fantasia (1940) |
"Ribboned with flaws both impossibly minor and embarrassingly large, but it surely must count as one of the most visually stunning American movies ever made." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"A lightweight affair... Despite some momentary flashes of brilliance, this is no successor to the great Fantasia." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"For a film that's supposed to be playful, it's an awful, tedious drudge." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"It's given new life to a filmmaker who'd been getting a bit too ossified in his style and tics." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"A superfluous, wandering plot ultimately keeps it from attaining the heights of a modestly diverting action thingy, dooming it instead to the pits of a modestly disappointing action thingy." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
FAUST (1926) |
"A great work by a great director, and one of the most instantly accessible silent films ever made." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Fighting (2009) |
"Filmed... with a colorful, grimy intimacy that unabashedly showcases all of the oozing pores that the filmmakers can find, but never makes its settings seem unpleasant or unlivable." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The Final Destination (2009) |
"Why watch people die discreetly with a small amount of CGI blood when you can cue up the DVD of the second film and watch that kid get squashed like an overripe grape?" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"Violates the most basic rules of cinematic storytelling grammar; and for this reason it transfixed me." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) |
"For those on the right wavelength...this is magisterial cinema." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
The Flying Scotsman (2007) |
"Business-as-usual for a sports movie." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Food, Inc. (2009) |
"Essential viewing for anyone with even a slight interest in the quality and substance of their health and food, which darn well ought to include everybody." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Fool's Gold (2008) |
"A bad movie, bad in almost every respect, bad as adventure and bad as romance and bad as comedy. It's really completely bad." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
"Not one second in the film is unpleasant, for even the bummer scenes have the wistful ring of truth. But I do mind how much of it is no more than pleasant." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Four Christmases (2008) |
"Vaughn and Witherspoon are plainly uncomfortable in their roles,... two of the flattest performances of any romantic comedy of recent vintage." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
The Fox and the Hound (1981) |
"Cloying and cutesy, a helpless callback to a number of truly classic movies that it couldn't hope to equal, let alone better." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Fracture (2007) |
"At no moment does this stop feeling like an especially glossy and especially joyless episode of Law and Order." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Frankenstein (1931) |
"If it isn't the best American horror film of the 1930s, that's only because the extremely gifted director James Whale wasn't done with the franchise quite yet." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) |
"Pretty much the end of Universal's horror line as a home for even the vaguest kind of serious filmmaking." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Fred Claus (2007) |
"A soulless concoction that's a joy-sinkhole for the whole family." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) |
"Freddy vs. Jason is a pretty awful Nightmare film, but only a mediocre F13 film." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) |
"It makes less sense than any preceding Nightmare film...although it's so out-and-out crazy that it's at least a little bit more entertaining than some of them" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Friday the 13th (2009) |
"Only just about as good as it absolutely has to be. Which is admittedly better than most of the densest sequels in the original run of films could claim." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980) |
"Makes not the slightest attempt to hide the outright theft of every one of its ideas from much better films." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 2 (1981) |
"All things considered, it probably should have been a whole lot worse." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 3 (1982) |
"So appallingly, overwhelmingly stupid that it is stupid even by the standards of the Friday the 13th franchise." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 4: The Final Chapter (1984) |
"Not so venally stupid as its predecessor." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 5: A New Beginning (1985) |
"This is not a fun stupid movie. This is a stupid movie that makes me want to claw my skin off." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 6: Jason Lives (1986) |
"It's kind of a nice film, and nice exploitation films are nobody's idea of a good time." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 7: The New Blood (1988) |
"By this seventh entry in the series, being different just for the sake of it really is justification enough." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
Friday the 13th - Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) |
"An inscrutable narrative that pukes its way across an unforgivably long 100 minutes." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"A fine entertainment for a winter night that plays it completely safe." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Frozen River (2008) |
"Leo gives the kind of performance that's easy to overlook because it doesn't have any Big Moments...so fully inhabited that it never crosses your mind that you're not watching a real woman." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Fun and Fancy Free (1947) |
"If it wasn't already obvious from glancing at the studio's other work from around the same period, this would be proof enough that the steam was starting to go out of Disney's art." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Funny Games (2008) |
"No, Michael Haneke's new version does not need to exist. Regardless of its inherent quality or lack thereof, it serves essentially no useful purpose." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Funny People (2009) |
"It's that very shagginess and earnestness... that makes the film, however clumsy, so charming." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Fury (1936) |
"The film's message is resonant far beyond the moment of its creation, speaking even to our modern-day political reality." |
Tim Brayton |
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