Tomato 2.5/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"It's Girotti, a now-deceased veteran of classic films by such great directors as Roberto Rosselini and Luchino Visconti, whose polished restraint and leathery dignity lends authoritative heft to the movie's self-help bromides." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Edie Sedgwick may have been too elusive and too fractured to be easily explained. Factory Girl is a good try with some great acting. But as with its subject, it's both too much and not enough." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
Fade to Black (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"A passionate, clearly articulated, if sloppily structured indictment of the president, his ties to the bin Laden family, his relentless push for war in Iraq and, as portrayed by Moore, an ineptitude bordering on the criminal." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"The stars execute their silly romantic-comedy dance steps as if to the manner born, but it is the funny shuffle-and-halt tango between Bartha's computer nerd and Deschanel's man-proof misanthrope that add some real zest." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Faithless (2001) |
"Rarely do we see a film that measures the full reverberations of adultery, one that grabs us by the hair and makes us face up to our own potential to inflict enduring damage." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Fall of Fujimori (2006) |
"The Fall of Fujimori couldn't happen along at a more pregnant moment for America, as we agonize over how far we are willing to let our own leaders fudge the rules to stamp out terrorists." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
Fame (2009) |
"A big, bland and bogus clone of a movie update, which runs a half-hour less than the original and only feels like forever." |
Linda Winer |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Family Law (2006) |
"Low-key without being ho-hum, sexy in a brainy-but-humble way, Hendler is a how-to study in the charismatic power of unembellished screen acting." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
The Family Man (2000) |
"Holiday moviemaking by the manual." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"Almost everything about The Family Stone is so schematic and prefabricated that it should come with its own easy-to-follow blueprint." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fanaa (2006) |
"To resort to strictly ethnocentric references, Fanaa is equal parts MGM extravaganza, Shakespeare lite and James Bond. In their heart of hearts, isn't that what movie audiences really want?" |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fanaa (2006) |
"Fanaa is equal parts MGM extravaganza, Shakespeare Lite and James Bond. In their heart of hearts, isn't that what movie audiences really want?" |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fanboys (2009) |
"A rote comedy that tries to pay tribute to this much-maligned subculture, but instead resorts to lazy stereotypes and comedy conventions." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"For introducing children to the joys of classical music, the Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoon shorts were far wittier and much less condescending." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"Sad, then, to see that the Marvel rag that elevated the human element in the pow-biff-bam of the superhero world has been transposed into the most plastic of comic-to-movie adaptations yet." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Of all the Marvel-spawned screen franchises, the Fantastic Four is the most puerile, reducing as it does this smartly quirky comic book quartet to a fourth-grade primer in dysfunctional family psychology." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"With its clever visual jokes and sassy dialogue, Anderson's first foray into animation doesn't seem to be made entirely with children in mind. Maybe that's why it seems so perfect for them." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Its core is a nugget of emotional truth and longing that's irresistible, and inextricably tied to a power so purely cinematic you wonder why so many other directors even bother." |
John Anderson |
Tomato |
The Farewell (2002) |
"Intelligent, caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Farmingville (2004) |
"With the intervening events of 9/11 and the Patriot Act, the subject of what happened in Farmingville - and what would have happened, had it happened now -- are more relevant than ever." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"This means many loud racing sequences (ably directed by Justin Lin) that look like the very video games inspired by these movies: candy-colored automobiles, digital dashboards and automated female voices." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"Guilt-free pleasure, the sort that wears its trashiness on its sleeve and exults in it." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"This thing hums along like a rebuilt vintage turbine compared with [director] Lin's previous, unfortunate Annapolis." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"The unstoppable director Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly) and writer Eric Schlosser take the latter's nonfiction bestseller and rig up a fictitious, sprawling narrative to take up the book's scathing talking points." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
Fast Food, Fast Women (2001) |
"Kollek's droll humor relieves most of the cloyingly familiar aspects of this wish-fulfillment phantasmagoria." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"Visually captivating." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"Fat Albert plays things safe and bland, for the most part." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fateless (2006) |
"As you'd expect from a cinematographer's movie, it's visually striking. But as its ambiguous postwar scenes of its embittered, bewildered hero display, it is also probing beyond its subject's customary parameters for fresh perspective." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Father and Son (2004) |
"A more naked movie than Father and Son is hard to imagine and would be impossible to watch." |
John Anderson |
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The Favor (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"The unorthodoxy of the film is perhaps its biggest asset -- along with the idea that a personal cinema can still exist, be so entertaining and provide something new to feel about character -- and maybe even the universe." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fear Dot Com (2002) |
"It misses the big picture, the story is impossibly lame, but you can't say it doesn't have style." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fearless (2006) |
"Whatever the years ahead, Li leaves the field he helped expand with honor and glory unsullied." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"Feast of Love isn't an altogether satisfying banquet, but you settle for whatever looks good on the plate." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
Feel the Noise (2007) |
"Instead of trying to find the heartbeat of reggaetón, the movie resorts to teen conventions, banking that its target audience -- Latino teens, who don't often see themselves onscreen -- won't know enough to demand better." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003) |
"It's fascinating to hear Fellini talk about himself and his work." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Felon (2008) |
"Tough, brutish prison drama with an easy windup, but good acting and an uncompromising take on the prison system." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"The rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is, although it's more comedy than suspense De Palma creates." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"Joplin, showing why her live performances became so legendary, cocktail- shakes her musical ferocity with her touching vulnerability and scorches the orchestra seats with a blast of regurgitated Bessie Smith." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Festival in Cannes (2002) |
"You've got the most percussive navel-gazer in independent film bringing together such type-A personalities as Zack Norman and Ron Silver, and then having them toot their trombones at each other for the better part of 90 minutes." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"A paean to Boston Red Sox fandom that even a Yankee fan can appreciate." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fidel (2002) |
"Ninety minutes of Viva Castro! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of Jesse Helms' anti- Castro rhetoric, which are included" |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fido (2007) |
"Fido, which feels original despite borrowing from a half-dozen genres, shouldn't be taken too seriously." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Fierce People (2007) |
"A textbook example of the hazards of hiring a writer to adapt his own novel." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Fighter (2001) |
"Historically and emotionally potent -- as well as the funniest movie of the summer, thanks mostly to Lustig's understated but pungent wit." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fighting (2009) |
"White-knuckle action and bruisingly bad dialogue make for an uneven but wildly entertaining fight flick." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"A messy, sprawling family barbecue of a movie that barely gets by on salesmanship, energy and maybe more than a little chicanery." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Film Geek (2006) |
"As played by Melik Malkasian with Pee-Wee Herman-y chirpiness, you feel for him as you would any out-of-it sibling who seems beyond help." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Final Cut (2004) |
"A grim but clever sci-fi fantasy." |
Jan Stuart |
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