Tomato 3/4 |
Face (2004) |
"By the end of Face, we've been drawn deep into the battle for both communal support and individual freedom that marks the progress of so many ethnic groups in America." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"As the relationship progresses between Giovanna and Davide, Facing Windows becomes refined with deeper truths." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Thanks to the flashy work of the film's two editors and cinematographer, style trumps substance. Or perhaps it merely masks the lack of it." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"At its best, the film is also a powerful, furious, loving -- and, at times, manipulative -- treatise on family values." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"Like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers, Failure to Launch reminds us that Hollywood is set on making romantic-comedy counterparts to the chick flick." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fall to Grace (2006) |
"Feels like a movie you'd find late at night on a film-festival program, sincere and worthy, yet not quite watchable." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Falling Angels (2003) |
"So many reasons to see the darkly hopeful Canadian film Falling Angels -- a terrific unknown cast showcased in subtle close-ups, and a quirky literary script largely free of cliche." |
Michael Booth |
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A Family Affair (2003) |
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Splat |
The Family Man (2000) |
"Desperately needs a more centered, consistent performance from [Cage]." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"Suddenly we're wiping away tears, glancing around to make sure no one noticed we had fallen for this steaming cup of melodrama." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"Compared to how visually and narratively imaginative Disney-released animated films have been in the 1990s, this one seems at a loss for purpose." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"The kind of don't-ask- too-many-questions action-hero movie where the humor is tasty and the FX are wicked-cool." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Better than its juvenile predecessor." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"The filmmakers hew to Dahl's intent and add fine turns of their own." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 4/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"It's a film that's loving toward all concerned, even when they cause each other pain. And it is overwhelmingly, refreshingly sincere even while being revisionist." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"Breathes life and fire -- and fury -- into the old hot-rod movie." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Too many story threads are consistently ignored or dropped altogether." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Faster (2004) |
"Problem is, after an hour and a half of Faster, I still don't get motor sports." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"There's much to enjoy in Fat Albert." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
The Favor (2008) |
"It is a flawed but intriguing film that promises better things to come from its filmmaker." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"Fay Grim plays like a cadre of smug high-school drama students absolutely convinced everyone will be as amused by their antics as they are." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"The result is satisfying, anchored by wonderful performances, including an aching rendition of Bob Dylan's 'I Shall Be Released' with Manuel singing and Guy's smoking-hot version of 'Money.'" |
Edward P. Smith |
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Fever (2001) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"It is very wise about men and women, leisure and responsibility." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Field of Dreams (1989) |
"The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick." |
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Splat |
Fight Club (1999) |
"Affliction is a better film, because it brings us into the hearts and minds of its characters rather than just bludgeoning us with its visions." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fighting (2009) |
"It is Tatum's performance that leads us to praise men of brute innocence." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"A good story sung by great voices." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Final Cut (2004) |
"It's a dark and thought-provoking exploration of where our strange marriage of voyeurism and self-absorption may lead us just a few years from now." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
Final Destination (2000) |
"Good films see through those fears and anxieties like wise psychologists. The rest, like this, just see the dollar signs." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"Slow, repetitive, flat and altogether wrongheaded, using suspect editing of a true story to make us celebrate a bunch of vicious crooks." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 4/4 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"An exquisitely touching saga about a father tracking down his lost son." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"The verities are about the ways imagination is craved and curtailed by loved ones and by society." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Firewall (2006) |
"Firewall gives us little reason to bestow deeper meaning on what is essentially a pre-owned Ford vehicle." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
First Descent (2005) |
"A sports documentary that occasionally veers toward becoming a lovesick advertisement for a popular sport but winds up celebrating with sweet earnestness the headstrong individual and his or her community of likeminded renegades." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"Some movies and their makers are essential to our understanding of ourselves. Eastwood has become such a director. With Flags, he once again proves he is filmmaker for what ails us but also for what can make us extraordinary." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Flightplan (2005) |
"Like Red Eye, last month's air-scare flick, Flightplan rides a jet stream of post 9/11 worries." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"Leave reason behind, back in steerage class, and simply breathe in the foibles of the (upper) crust on this crème brûlée." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Flushed Away (2006) |
"The chatter is as zingy for the adults in the theater as the action is zippy for the kiddies." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
Flyboys (2006) |
"If the current legroom in economy class doesn't make you resent the birth of the Wright Brothers, Flyboys certainly will. Like a flight from New York to Los Angeles, it's bad and it's long." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Fog of War (2003) |
"A provocative case study in power and the powerful." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Fool's Gold (2008) |
"What didn't figure into the equation was fresh writing." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"Inside the awfully good comedy For Your Consideration is a purely awful drama, dying to break out." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) |
"A number of Forbidden Kingdom sequences deliver muscular slaptick. A fight in which Lu Yan uses Jason as one more weapon in his arsenal of defensive moves is vintage Chan." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Forgotten (2004) |
"We get all of Moore, which is a lot, but only half a story, which is not quite enough to make The Forgotten a winning thriller." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 0/4 |
Formula 51 (2002) |
"Long before it's over, you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fountain (2006) |
"The Fountain is either innovative science fiction or overwrought melodrama; I can't quite pinpoint which. I realize I'm charged with reaching an opinion here, but it's not easy." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Four Feathers (2002) |
"Weighted down with slow, uninvolving storytelling and flat acting." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fracture (2007) |
"Fracture is no Silence of the Lambs. In fact, it's no Primal Fear. Anthony Hopkins may well be smarter than all of us put together, but his busy career sometimes has more breadth than wit." |
Michael Booth |