Splat 2/4 |
Facing the Giants (2006) |
"A sermon much more than it is a movie." |
Paul Doro |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Once again, Sedgwick is being remembered less for who she was than who she knew." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"The acting is excellent, and Factotum does not pull any punches as it wallows in the darker side of life." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"This may be Moore's most dogmatic film to date, but it is also his most stylistically and structurally confident." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"It is a sweet and funny sitcom, but without an iota of originality." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Faithless (2001) |
"Faithless is Bergman at his most familiar." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Fall (2008) |
"Singh's aesthetic is like a pungent flavor or a fragrance that lingers in the film's Escher-like folds, overwhelming logical narrative and emotional clarity." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fame (2009) |
"Seems a bit lackluster next to the original, 1980 Oscar winner." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat |
The Family Man (2000) |
"It is the peculiar generic cinematic gag gift of the season." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"The angry scenes are shattering, the funny scenes are sidesplitting and the sadder scenes dutifully earn their tears." |
Piet Levy |
Splat 2/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"By being late to the multiplex marketplace, the film version offers little we haven't seen done before and done better." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"The film spends too much time on peripheral distractions and shallow personal problems, and not enough establishing the scope, scale and sense of awe its cosmic events merit." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"Anderson is a thematic and stylistic eccentric, whose meticulous and dazzling sense of artifice results in a fully realized world that travels at top speed and is miniature only in scale." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"From living room furniture to chain smoking at a cocktail party, Haynes gives the film the verisimilitude of a time and place where reflex, ritual and function disguised what people really thought and felt." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"Would make a much better music video than a feature-length film." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Tokyo Drift jump-starts the franchise with a high-octane mix of action, hot stars and smokin' cars." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Fast Food Nation tastes like something everyone says is good for you, but has little flavor." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"Like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Faster (2004) |
"Serves as an insightful primer for the uninitiated." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"The actors playing the live-action incarnations of the show's characters do them justice." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fat Girl (2001) |
"While Fat Girl is graphic and shocking, it is a more compelling argument than Romance." |
Duane Dudek |
- |
The Favor (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
Michele Kenner |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Favor (2008) |
"Nothing extraordinary happens, and [director] Aradjis relies on Wood and Donowho to carry the slight thread of a film." |
Michele Kenner |
Tomato 3/4 |
Feast (2006) |
"The movie happens to be terrific." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Splat 2/4 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"It is like a compilation of [De Palma's] best and worst instincts." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"A remarkable cultural document that captures the circus-like atmosphere and the raw and immediate quality of the performances." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"[It's] never as fun to watch as it looks like it was to be there. And it never quite manages to incorporate what we know is an upbeat foregone conclusion with the lovable-loser, maybe-next-year tone of the film." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Fight Club (1999) |
"Fight Club is a heady, brutal, raucously funny riot that sucks you into its right-brain fantasy." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"There's no great plot development or surprises to keep your interest. But the camaraderie and small-community details captured by director Jonathan Lynn save the day." |
Nick Carter |
Splat |
Final Destination (2000) |
"The stupidest horror film to hit theaters in recent years." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Final Destination 2 (2003) |
"Innovative offings are about the only thing Final Destination 2 has going for it." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"If you're into state-of-the art depictions of human pureeing, this is indeed your flick." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Splat |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) |
"While the action is convincing, the story is garbled and its which-way-is-up climax is too scrambled." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Final Season (2007) |
"Fresh-faced and plain-spoken, it finds its way into your heart with a quiet sincerity that's as refreshing and satisfying as a good, farmhouse-cooked meal." |
Paul Kosidowski |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"The narrative feels episodic; it pops in and out of the courtroom without much sense of drama or continuity, and the testimony seems to lead nowhere." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
Finding Forrester (2000) |
"Its intentions are honorable, but its portrait of youth, urban, academic and literary culture is Mesozoic." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"Rarely matches the emotional depth or richly textured worlds of predecessors Monsters, Inc. and A Bug's Life, but it has a sly sense of humor and evocative voice acting." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"Offers tantalizing glimpses of the intangible and inexplicable that lurk behind the known world, to be seen by the mind's eye of those who look hard enough." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Firewall (2006) |
"Firewall is an assembly-line thriller." |
Paul Doro |
Splat 1/4 |
First Daughter (2004) |
"This film is a flick that perhaps little girls and teens who worship Holmes will enjoy. But it's got little to interest adults, even in an election year." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
First Descent (2005) |
"First Descent might become tedious for anyone wondering what all the fuss is about. But for those who have felt the thrill of carving an "S" down the side of a mountain on a snowboard, this movie is cheaper than a lift ticket." |
Meg Jones |
Tomato 3/4 |
The First Saturday in May (2008) |
"The filmmakers emphasize the disparate personalities of the trainers, who can taste victory with every stride of the beautiful animals with whom they work, groom and feed." |
Michele Kenner |
Splat 2/4 |
First Sunday (2008) |
"Even as the film's most stereotypical figure, stand-up comic Katt Williams manages to be the only consistently funny character in this uninspired inspirational comedy." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Five Obstructions (2004) |
"A hugely entertaining chess game between equally matched opponents." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"Flags of Our Fathers is as somber as a funeral and is a muted counterpoint to the tendency to turn war into a celebration of dead heroes and pyrrhic victories." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Flash of Genius (2008) |
"It's the individual story, fleshed out by Philip Railsback's intelligent script, that makes the audience care." |
Cathy Jakicic |
- |
Flawless (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Flawless (2007) |
"It's a work of brilliant cut, color and clarity that delivers on almost all of its ambitious promises." |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Flicka (2006) |
"Flicka proves a pleasant surprise for a family film." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
"Even with its inconsistencies, the movie offers enough suspense to get airborne." |
Sue Pierman |
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