Tomato 3.5/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"The Italians do a sort of romantic film best, but they start with a big edge: Italy. In Facing Windows, they have Rome and the warm colors and the food, and a very good cast led by immensely appealing Giovanna Mezzogiorno." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Factory Girl is weirdo weary, despite some vivacity spooned into it by Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"Approved by the writer's widow and estate, this may be the closest movies have come (outside of documentaries) to Bukowski." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 4/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"An extremely effective advertisement for Michael Moore's political ideas and gut feelings." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"Matthew Sexiest Man Alive McConaughey ought to be in Westerns, but not many are being made. So he plays a walking, winky pin-up in Failure to Launch, which may launch commercially but is a failure." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Family Man (2000) |
"The movie is bogus, but weirdly involving." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"Strangely, though, it's not an overdose of sentimentality that makes the family - - and the film - - so hard to buy. It's that most of its members are so blithely cruel." |
James Hebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Fanfan La Tulipe (1952) |
"Tiresomely tireless escapade." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"As total packaging, you can't deny that this show is handsomely wrapped." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"If not entirely a downer, this is no topper." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"The movie hums along with a strange hypnotic power. But the performances can be tentative." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"Every so often, we need to pulverize our minds with something slickly generic and absurdly entertaining." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"This greased popcorn box uses women as hood ornaments." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"It's a lot of food for thought -- even if sometimes, a bit too much is on the menu." |
James Hebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"One senses in its playing out that right here, right now, these people, these deeds, these lessons are the stuff of a great legend, one that will be told and retold for countless generations." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"Albert is too numbingly nice for a comedy that at 80 minutes runs about 15 minutes past its prime time." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Fat Girl (2001) |
"Drenched in nasty cynicism far beyond reason." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Father and Son (2004) |
"The film seems to have internalized Sokurov's inspiration so far that it becomes a blur of hints and vapors." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"Parker Posey is one of the indie queens used feebly by Hollywood, but in the hands of Hartley she is the star needed and right on schedule." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"Stylized synthetic junk, all Paris and pastiche." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"It's a fun, 90-minute ride, if little more." |
George Varga |
Tomato 3/4 |
Festival in Cannes (2002) |
"Made to be Jaglomized is the Cannes Film Festival, the annual Riviera spree of flesh, buzz, blab and money. The charming result is Festival in Cannes." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"Less a salute to the Boston Red Sox's 2004 World Series triumph (after 86 years of famously 'cursed' agony) than a miniaturized Fenway Park in a Beantown video game, with Jimmy Fallon as mascot and Drew Barrymore as cheerleader." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"Can this career be saved? After watching The Fighting Temptations, you may feel that Cuba Gooding Jr.'s may not." |
Jerry McCormick |
Splat |
Final Destination (2000) |
"Comedy? Horror? Tongue-in-cheek horror? Horror-in-comedy cheek? After a couple of truly frightening moments near the beginning you can sense shoulders being shrugged." |
Arthur Salm |
Tomato |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) |
"FF:TSW, despite conceptual gas that bloats it about 10 minutes beyond its best length, has exciting surge, sweep, detail and dazzle." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"Diesel owns it. He hits us in the eye with the whole pizza pie." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 4/4 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"In not just a crowd-grabber but an instant classic, Albert Brooks achieves a new height vocally as Marlin, the dad." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"Marc Forster is lost in Edwardian Neverland. The plot is not only cloddishly obvious but thinner than a stage scrim, and Barrie's 'genius' is scarcely explored." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Firehouse Dog (2007) |
"Firehouse Dog has good fire action, an engaging cast and enough vividly shot turns, surprises and bowwow reactions to hold the firm attention of pet lovers from age 5 on up. Go fetch." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Firewall (2006) |
"Although there are a number of small, internal twists and turns, the outline of the plot sags from having had so many movies hung on it for so many years." |
Arthur Salm |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
First Descent (2005) |
"At its best, fairly often, the movie rises above hammy devices." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"Flags has the guts to put honest quote remarks around 'the good war” and 'the greatest generation.' It honors the fathers and the lost sons by not simply raising a flag." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
"The story is surefire, like a good Swiss Family Robinson episode revised for a boys' issue of Aviation Week." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Flightplan (2005) |
"Flightplan lacks a good plan (or, to use film jargon, script)." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"The film is a bore." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Flushed Away (2006) |
"Many hands, including many writers, applied themselves to Flushed Away (doesn't that usually require just one hand?). The result is committee animation: cute, fast, uninspired, softly consumable." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Flyboys (2006) |
"The movie mainly appeals to viewers who need 'dogfights', noble deaths and burning Huns. It could stir the blood of the 13-year-old boy in anyone." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Focus (2001) |
"There is a smell of mothballs to Slavin's presentation." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Fog of War (2003) |
"[McNamara's] humility is that of a player who has decided to keep certain hole cards his own, forever. We could think about this movie for just about as long." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Forgotten (2004) |
"It is not easy for a parent to watch, or anyone who has cared about a child, but not making it easy is what lifts Ruben in good form above the go-for-it thrill grinders." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Formula 51 (2002) |
"If you are a moviegoer who realizes that your habit is not sustained by absurd demands on taste and sensitivity, then Formula 51 is the party junk you need as relief from worse junk." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Forty Shades of Blue (2005) |
"You can't take a movie like this one from a veteran like Torn, who is terrific, but Korzun anchors the movie with dense subtlety and watchful detailing." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Four Feathers (2002) |
"Four Feathers has the reality of pain and endurance. It's macho without much hokum." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Fracture (2007) |
"Movies like this, side ventures of the John Grisham franchise, are meant to entertain with 'substance' that never risks actual depth." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Frailty (2002) |
"It provides the kind of B-pulped, sadistic voyeurism that viewers should grow past but tend (mainly on video) to lap up." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Freaky Friday (2003) |
"It's always great to see a good actress at work. With Disney's remake of 1976's Freaky Friday, audiences get to see two of them." |
Jerry McCormick |
Splat |
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) |
"[Green] avoids structure, rhythm, shaped finesse and just pinballs from one 'surreal' idea to the next." |
David Elliott |
Splat 0/4 |
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) |
"You'll cringe in horror at the stinkfest on screen." |
Jerry McCormick |
Splat 1/4 |
Freedomland (2005) |
"Moore is moving, but the film is a flogging fiasco." |
David Elliott |
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