Splat 2/4 |
Face (2004) |
"A sincere but superficial version of a familiar story." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"It's a potent tale, wonderfully acted by Mezzogiorno and Massimo Girotti as the old man." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"With Factory Girl, Hickenlooper has taken an icon and made her ordinary." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"There are a few laughs -- and a corking hangover." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
- |
Fade to Black (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Dominguez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"The information here isn't necessarily new, but it is packaged in an acid-tongued way along with powerhouse visuals that drive home the filmmaker's nakedly political views." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"The plot synopsis sounds less like sitcom than sick-com: A womanizer has the tables turned on him when he falls in love with, essentially, a prostitute whose services are being paid for by parents who don't have the decency to ask him to leave." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fame (2009) |
"Mullally has the most poignant moment, admitting to her students that the reason she teaches is because fame, for her, just wasn't in the cards. (Stardom, more than in the first film, is golden here.)" |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Family Law (2006) |
"[Director Daniel] Burman tends to focus very tightly on the details of individual identity - religion, nationality, gender. It is all the more striking, then, that his restrained and unassuming films are wise enough to speak to every adult." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"A machine-tooled entertainment that's as fake and flimsy as a plastic Christmas tree." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"You don't expect realism from a comic-book movie, but you do want the characters to seem larger than life. Here, they look like contestants at a costume party." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Much better than the original." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"A visual treasure that successfully blends deadpan quirkiness with a wry realism rarely seen in any film, let alone one for children." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 3.5/4 |
Far Side of the Moon (2005) |
"As an actor, Lepage is a captivating presence, easily transforming from one sibling to the other. And as a director, he braids the personal and the universal with dexterity, turning theatrical intimacy into cinematic ecstasy." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Farmingville (2004) |
"Farmingville doggedly taps into the larger forces at work, including government disregard of an escalating problem, and offers only the smallest glimmer of hope that the two sides can work things out through ingenuity and compromise." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/5 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"Like a lemon that's been tricked out with a fancy paint job, Fast & Furious won't stand up to much scrutiny under the hood." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"The kind of movie in which plot and performances (and members of the fairer sex) are treated as accessories, Tokyo Drift is all about the action. And on that count, it won't let you down." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"No question, these are alarming issues, but I would direct you to Schlosser's book." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"Somewhere in its quest to be educational, Fat Albert forgot to be entertaining." |
Robert Dominguez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fat Girls (2007) |
"A modestly impressive debut -- especially considering that writer/director Ash Christian was 21 when he made it -- this poignant comedy will appeal to anyone who vividly remembers what it's like to be a high school outcast." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"Hartley's work has always been an acquired taste. While Fay Grim is too uneven to win him many converts, it is laced with enough intelligence and wit to remind longtime fans why they were drawn to his unique vision in the first place." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fear and Trembling (2004) |
"A marvelous cross between Secretary and Lost in Translation." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fear X (2003) |
"Fortunately, Turturro's subtle turn keeps our emotional connection solid even when the story skates on thin ice." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fearless (2006) |
"In Ronny Yu's sweeping film based on the life of wu shu master Huo Yuanjia, the retiring action star manages to tug a few heartstrings while breaking plenty of bones." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"All the couples have palpable chemistry, and Kinnear and Freeman seem so convinced they're in a respectable movie that they actually make it one." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Feel the Noise (2007) |
"The plot is contrived, the performances are all over the board, and Chomski's camera ogles his actresses just a little too much." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/5 |
Felon (2008) |
"A subplot involving corrupt guards makes the movie even duller than the score that sounds like a rusty squeezebox." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"Although their on-board antics are mighty entertaining, it's the extraordinary performances -- including Joplin's historic, heart-rending 'Cry Baby' -- that lift this movie into the cannon of classic festival films." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"Can be funny and endearing when you don't dwell on the black hole that is Jimmy Fallon." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fido (2007) |
"Definitely the most fun you'll have with the undead this week." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fierce People (2007) |
"The last act promises some very dark and primitive acts -- not that you should care." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009) |
"Sturgess is solid and Kingsley predictably sneaky, but the atmosphere -- scurries through the Catholic/Protestant border, tense stand-offs, spontaneous riots -- is what's genuinely gripping." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (2005) |
"An IMAX film highlighted by exhilarating sequences of simulated aerial combat." |
Robert Dominguez |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fighting (2009) |
"By making good use of its New York setting, Montiel does bring a certain indie grit to the generic story." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fighting for Life (2008) |
"There is no question that [direcotr Terry] Sanders has discovered a worthy subject. He just hasn't found the right way to approach it." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"A raucous gospel comedy that's as broad as co-star Beyonce Knowles' vowels and chockablock with foot-stomping, up-with-the-choir music that will have even atheists praising the Lord." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fighting Tommy Riley (2005) |
"The sort of slick-looking indie that plays well at film festivals, this heavy-handed boxing drama is really just a flyweight bulked up on cliches and false sentimentality." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/4 |
Film Geek (2006) |
"The film's press notes proudly observe that both Westby and Quentin Tarantino spent time soaking up celluloid while working at video stores. Which means they have exactly one thing in common." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 0/5 |
Filth and Wisdom (2008) |
"Uniformly badly acted down to a loaf of bread, this eye-bleedingly stupid and witless movie is proof that just because someone is considered an icon doesn't mean she should be allowed near movie cameras." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/4 |
The Final Cut (2004) |
"The Final Cut can't cope with its own weirdness." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Final Destination (2009) |
"With the exception of Williamson, the actors are as disposable as their characters, and there is no story to speak of." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"After a fiendish start, filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan approach their task with all the subtlety of a hammer to the head (or a knife to the gut, or an ax to the back)." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"It's one thing to project sympathetic qualities onto fictional gangsters like the Corleones and the Sopranos; it's another to make protagonists out of actual members of the Lucchese crime family." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/5 |
Finding Amanda (2008) |
"Tolan writes regularly for smart shows like Rescue Me, but his best instincts deserted him when he set his sights on the big screen for the first time." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Finding Eleazar (2004) |
"Because his self-conscious musings are given so much space, it helps to arrive at the movie already awed by Shicoff's talents so you can overlook his (and this dramatically unfocused film's) flaws." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"An enchanting animated feature." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"As a study of the creative process, Finding Neverland is too literal, yet gives a healthy idea of the richness and ingenuity of Barrie's work." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fire Under the Snow (2008) |
"Be warned: The opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics might look a little different if you see Makoto Sasa's disturbing documentary beforehand." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/5 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"Spending time with these guys is the longest 89 minutes ever." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/4 |
Firehouse Dog (2007) |
"This is an oddly second-rate production for a major-studio release; the underwhelming mystery belongs in a Scooby-Doo episode, and the slapdash direction is just as shaggy." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
IGN RSS Feeds
