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Factory Girl (2007) |
"The Warhol cosmos is too weird and complicated to lend itself to a conventional Hollywood biopic, and this one is conventional down to Warhol’s first glimpse of his future 'superstar' bouncing up and down vivaciously in tacky slow motion." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"This is the most comprehensive diatribe ever filmed against Bush and his cronies (even though, by necessity, it is focused primarily on Iraq)." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Faithless (2001) |
"Bergman has been far better at working out these themes than anything in Faithless would suggest." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Fanny and Alexander (1982) |
"This premiere of the original cut, running at 312 minutes, leaves room for more than a story of one life." |
Logan Hill |
Tomato |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"The additions are okay; but it’s the look that keeps you buoyed up, your eyes roaming the frames, laughing in surprise at the visual jokes and flourishes and textures. It’s a dandy’s movie, but that adds to the fun." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Achieves the same sentimentality as the Sirk films, and in much the same way." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Fast Food Nation gives you much to chew on and much to expel, but at least you’ll be sick for a healthy cause." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Fat Girl (2001) |
"A lovely minor achievement." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"The final, tragically uncomprehending close-up of Posey is perfect in a way Hartley didn't intend. It mirrors our incomprehension at his loss of imagination." |
David Edelstein |
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Felicia's Journey (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Fido (2007) |
"You say, Enough zombies already? No, please, make room for Fido. A shotgun wedding of George Romero and SCTV, it's madly funny -- a treat for moviegoers who don't mind gnawed-off limbs with their high jinks." |
David Edelstein |
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Fight Club (1999) |
"Fight Club rolls out its indictments and its Zen koans, but what it really resembles, perhaps unknowingly, is the squall of a whiny and essentially white-male generation that feels ruined by the privileges of women and a booming economy." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"If it didn’t have Johnny Depp as its star, Finding Neverland would barely pass muster as an average PBS Masterpiece Theatre entry." |
Ken Tucker |
Tomato |
Firewall (2006) |
"The movie gets a lift from Mary Lynn Rajskub in a glamorized version of her nerd’s wet dream Chloe on 24, which is also better this year with the Chloe quotient pumped up." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The First Saturday in May (2008) |
"A generally upbeat film, it could easily work as a promotion for the sport—although it does offer some sad moments courtesy of the much-publicized tragedy of Barbaro." |
Sara Cardace |
Tomato |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"[Flags] fits into Eastwood’s late-in-life agenda -- to make violence, even in self-defense, seem soul-killing, and to expose the gulf between reality and myth. After this, how can we ever again make our peace with the iconography of war?" |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) |
"In The Flight of the Red Balloon, the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao Hsien uses Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 masterpiece The Red Balloon as a springboard for his own masterpiece." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Flow: For Love of Water (2008) |
"It’s a plainly one-sided call to arms, but with good reason -- you may never look at your faucet without flinching again." |
Sara Cardace |
Tomato |
Food, Inc. (2009) |
"It’s the documentary equivalent of The Matrix: It shows us how we’re living in a simulacrum, fed by machines run by larger machines with names like Monsanto, Perdue, Tyson, and the handful of other corporations that make everything." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Foot Fist Way (2008) |
"It may not look like much, but the low-budget tae kwon do comedy The Foot Fist Way is one of the funniest DIY flicks in years, thanks to the droll wit of writer-director Jody Hill and star Danny McBride." |
Sara Cardace |
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For Love of the Game (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"Even more welcome than a new Bond is a new Guest." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) |
"Once past the clunky prologue, the film is great fun, with a good balance between computer effects and athleticism." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
"The film may not be as laugh-packed as its predecessor Knocked Up, but it charms nonetheless." |
Sara Cardace |
Tomato |
Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006) |
"Somewhat dry, but compulsively watchable." |
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The Fountain (2006) |
"I think I finally understand what George H.W. Bush meant by 'a thousand points of light.'" |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Fracture (2007) |
"What makes Fracture hum is the way Hopkins bares his teeth, twitches his nostrils, and trains his shiny pinprick Lecter eyes on his co-star." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Frailty (2002) |
"A terrifying low-budget thriller that packs a greater wallop than most of the high-priced studio scarefests." |
Peter Rainer |
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Frankie & Johnny are Married (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Freedomland (2005) |
"Moviemakers who exploit the suffering and death of children to ratchet up the dramatic stakes belong in the innermost circle of hell, but Freedomland -- clumsy and overwrought as it is -- earns the right to its harrowing trajectory." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Frequency (2000) |
"Has so little faith in its Twilight Zone-ish yarn that it resorts to a pulpy serial-killer subplot to juice the mumbo-jumbo." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Friday the 13th (2009) |
"You really have to screw it up to dishonor the memory of a movie as s****y as the original Friday the 13th. Heads should roll." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Friends With Money (2006) |
"Holofcener builds scenes around motifs that resonate marvelously." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
From Hell (2001) |
"The only thrill, if you can call it that, is waiting to see who gets sliced up next." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"Frost/Nixon is unsatisfying even if, like me, you’re a lifelong aficionado of Nixon-bashing." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Frozen River (2008) |
"All in all, Frozen River is gripping stuff." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Frozen River (2008) |
"Hunt’s gruff, blue-collar debut is a terrific arrival." |
Sara Cardace |
Tomato |
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"The resonant film that results is not without its flaws, but it’s ultimately quite absorbing." |
Sara Cardace |
Tomato |
Full Battle Rattle (2008) |
"The film is freaky, amusing, and sickening in equal measures -- part fly-on-the-wall vérité, part multiple-perspective Altmanesque tragicomedy." |
David Edelstein |
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Full Frontal (2002) |
"Soderbergh is so busy trying to create his movie-within-a-movie -- and, in at least one instance, his movie-within- a-movie-within -a-movie -- that he botches the enclosing movie." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Full Grown Men (2008) |
"Full Grown Men is a lovely, bewitching film with a lot on its mind." |
Bilge Ebiri |
Tomato |
Full Grown Men (2008) |
"It's a beautiful, delicately observed comedy." |
Sara Cardace |
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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Logan Hill |
Splat |
Funny Games (2008) |
"Haneke’s assault on our fantasy lives is shallow, unimaginative, and glacially unengaged -- a sucker punch without the redeeming passion of punk." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Funny People (2009) |
"Funny People feels insular, as if Apatow's whole world consists of nerdy jokesters who were angry, lonely kids who got rich beyond their dreams... but are deep down still angry." |
David Edelstein |
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) |
"You’d expect a conventional biopic to be bland and overly telescoped. But Arbus’s life and work ought to inspire something more than the generic tale of a repressed fifties doll wife who runs off with the circus." |
David Edelstein |
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