Splat 3/5 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"Undermines its central mystery while posing another: 'What in God's name is this film trying to say?'" |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"The vibrant 1960s New York art scene has never seemed as boring and programmatic as in George Hickenlooper’s Factory Girl, a pointless excuse for the director to recreate hep locations and counterculture icons." |
John Thomason |
Splat 2/5 |
Factotum (2006) |
"... when taking Bukowski at his sodden solipsistic word, there isn't much there there." |
Ian Grey |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"A sometimes sidesplitting, occasionally saddening but consistently entertaining attack on the most disastrous presidency in modern history." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
The Family Man (2000) |
"An entertaining romantic comedy that delights despite (or, others may feel, because of) its high mush quotient." |
Philip Booth |
Splat |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"In the aggregate, though, it's a fractious Christmas spent with unpleasant relatives you'd rather avoid." |
Jason Ferguson |
Tomato |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"A bold deviation from the Fantasia formula." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"Too insipid to live." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Impressive not because of anything that’s said, but for the realization that you’re watching the screen be dominated by Jessica Alba and a piece of CGI without ever once experiencing the urge to gnaw through your own shoulder." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 5/5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"This is about as quote-unquote fantastic as it gets." |
William Goss |
Tomato 4/5 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Moore's performance is nothing less than breathtaking." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"If you suffer from America's secret longing, you're going to have fun at The Fast and the Furious." |
George Meyer |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Linklater and Schlosser’s script is uneven and, ultimately, too erratic in focus to make a lasting impact." |
Cole Haddon |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"The mammoth, 172-minute movie has its share of slow passages. It picks up speed, however, as it advances toward a payoff that has much to say about the ultimate besting of evil." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fat Girl (2001) |
"No other film released so far this year is likely to generate as much discussion afterward." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 5/5 |
Favela Rising (2006) |
"Watching it all replayed is simply a life-changing experience." |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
Tomato |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"The story is deliberately perplexing, and while the logic of the serpentine narrative surely makes sense, Hartley is more concerned with the cadences and rhythms of the spy movie itself." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fear and Trembling (2004) |
"From its snarky water-cooler comedy to its satisfying dabblings in feminism, the movie has a championship heart in Testud, an electric screen presence any audience will follow as willingly as the camera tracks her marvelously expressive features." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Fearless (2006) |
"Touted as his last foray into martial-arts movies, Fearless finds Jet Li bowing out with a stunner." |
Jason Ferguson |
- |
Feed (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jason Ferguson |
- |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"From the moment Joplin announces her arrival in the film she holds you rapt under her spell." |
Bret McCabe |
Tomato |
Festival in Cannes (2002) |
"Jaglom's latest is his most mature work to date, one with fresh insights into the people who decide what we experience at our cineplexes." |
William A. Sievert |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"'It's cute' will be the overwhelming coo that greets this sweet meetup between Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore." |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
Tomato |
Fierce People (2007) |
"It's a well-observed coming-of-age story that turns on a bold, brutal plot development some viewers will accept and others will consider an insurmountable speed bump." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Fight Club (1999) |
"The first half of Fight Club is wicked, venomous satire." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"The story is slapdash and most of the jokes are lame, but music by the Reverend Shirley Caesar and the Blind Boys of Alabama lends fleeting touches of a grace that's, um, amazing." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Film Geek (2006) |
"Detailed in its affectionate mockery, the film captures the social isolation that befalls guys like Scotty but understates their own complicity on it." |
Steve Schneider |
- |
The Filth and the Fury (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
The Final Cut (2004) |
"Writer/director Omar Naim succumbs to most of the pitfalls of mediocre science fiction, inventing a 'dehumanizing' technology that's patently preposterous and then prodding us into getting all flustered about it." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Final Destination (2000) |
"Final Destination showed promise of attaining high altitude, but it sticks too closely to an over-worked flight path of terror to soar on its own." |
Brad Haynes |
- |
Final Destination 2 (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) |
"Jeff Vintar have distilled so many familiar science-fiction plot lines that nothing exists thematically to rival the groundbreaking visuals." |
Serena Donadoni |
Splat 3/5 |
The Final Season (2007) |
"Director David M. Evans generates nerve-racking suspense, but the idyllic shots of farm-fueled small towns as the utopia of the American heartland are just a John Mellencamp song away from being a political ad." |
John Thomason |
Splat |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"The real-life proceeding was supposedly the longest Mafia trial in American history, and you can feel all 600-plus days of it in Sidney Lumet's turgid screen translation." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Finding Forrester (2000) |
"Van Sant should be lauded for taking on a movie that places such a high premium on the life of the mind." |
Philip Booth |
Tomato 5/5 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"On its visual elements alone, Finding Nemo could get almost any kid started on a love of nature -- even if us older specimens know that it's a deep understanding of human nature that keeps the whole thing swimming." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"Though the movie doesn't always give us enough credit for being able to reach the conclusion on our own, it still assembles a persuasive case that there's a Neverland waiting inside every one of us." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Firewall (2006) |
"An overblown, unrelenting movie that tries to disguise its ludicrous plot with enough technical jargon to make it all appear feasible." |
John Thomason |
Splat .5/5 |
First Snow (2007) |
"A lousy Twilight Zone premise stretched mercilessly to 121 minutes." |
John Thomason |
- |
The Five Senses (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"Thanks to an excellent script by Paul Haggis (based on the book by William Broyles Jr.), the characters are rendered richly and honestly, further emphasizing the film’s powerful impact." |
Jason Ferguson |
Splat 1/5 |
Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
"Silly nonsense." |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
Splat |
Flightplan (2005) |
"The movie imparts a fear of flying, all right - - but only because it reminds you of the dross you're usually forced to watch up there." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) |
"A convoluted mess that will likely appeal to neither the young nor the old." |
Brad Haynes |
Splat 3/5 |
Flushed Away (2006) |
"Flushed Away suffers from a sense of one-upmanship that ultimately detracts from its best moments by making them confusing for the youngest viewers." |
Jason Ferguson |
Splat 1/5 |
Flyboys (2006) |
"For a while, Flyboys is just mindless, unintentional hilarity. But about halfway through this story the movie becomes an offensive piece of war propaganda." |
John Thomason |
Tomato |
Focus (2001) |
"The limited success of Focus rests on the soundness of Miller's concept and the sturdy performances of Macy and Dern." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Fog of War (2003) |
"If you, too, missed out on the fun of despising McNamara, you'll be entertained but unsatisfied by The Fog of War." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3/5 |
Food of Love (2002) |
"Young star Kevin Bishop plays the confused Paul with enough soul to sustain a movie that sometimes comes on like an ersatz training manual for parents of gay kids." |
Steve Schneider |
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