Tomato B- |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"Terrific performance by Mezzogiorno grounds a lovely, if flawed, film." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat C+ |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Details feel wrong; the pace is skittish; the rise to fatal hysteria is rapid and unconvincing. Finally you just lose all faith in it." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
Factotum (2006) |
"Warts and all, Factotum feels very close to the real thing." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A- |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"Supporters of the president will find this reprehensible. Detractors of the president will rub their hands with glee." |
Karen Karbo |
Splat C |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"Unfortunately, other than offering a couple of glib, single-scene explanations, director Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) and writers Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember aren't interested in exploring what makes either of their leads tick." |
Mike Russell |
Splat C+ |
The Fall (2008) |
"There's no doubt that Tarsem's a visionary director. Now he needs to envision a worthwhile script for himself." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
The Family Man (2000) |
"High on schmaltz and low on real feeling, Ratner's film is a hollow happening that, in more intelligent hands, may have achieved the kind of complexity it strives for." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat C |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"The Family Stone is almost totally emotionally bankrupt." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat C |
Fanboys (2009) |
"Fanboys kind of made me want to stop being one." |
Mike Russell |
Splat C |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"A movie that never delivers on its premise; a movie that takes promising character dynamics and gullet-stuffs them with idiot dialogue; a movie that will alienate all but the wee and easily impressed with its frequent lurches into stupidity." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B- |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Rise of the Silver Surfer is roughly 300 percent less cringe-inducing than its predecessor." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B+ |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"Anderson's fetish for quirk and detail finds in the fabricated world of a stop-motion film a kind of natural playground; if he's increasingly drawn to characters that are only marginally human, why not make them beasties and, better, puppets of beasties?" |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Fantastic Planet (1973) |
"Thirty-five years later, Rene Laloux's surreal animated film remains a singular psychedelic experience." |
Stan Hall |
Tomato |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Amazingly, Far From Heaven would have been one of the great American films of the '50s; it is certainly the finest American melodrama of our time." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"This will personally go down as the flick that really made me realize how much I hate CGI stunts." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"There's not much going on here other than cars. And that's fine, especially since director Cohen doesn't edit his action sequences into MTV-style quick cuts." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B- |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"As idiot car-crash movies go, Tokyo Drift is pretty fun, and certainly a more-than-decent entry in this franchise." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"The film is finally an uneasy marriage of his diverting technique -- rich performances, great talk, breezy pace -- and a subject too big and (ahem) meaty for him to swallow." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
Fast Food, Fast Women (2001) |
"Dreary and dull." |
|
Tomato |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"A gorgeous, engrossing, utterly alien and fresh movie that has the human truth and impact of classic Greek myth and the overwhelming beauty and mastery of the greatest epic films." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"Rather than making a movie about Fat Albert, they've decided to make a movie that comments on the Fat Albert TV series." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat |
Fat Girl (2001) |
"Unable to evoke empathy or forestall snickers, particularly once you've seen it all the way through and reflect on the whole." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"Hartley has been on a spotty run; his last film to get a proper theatrical release in Portland was made nearly a decade ago. But he recovers nicely with this witty, crackpot comedy about love, espionage, trust and secrecy." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
Fearless (2006) |
"The movie turns into an inspirational, uncomplicated biopic in which, yes, a series of awesomely violent fight scenes indicate that our worst enemy can be found between our ears." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat B- |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"Whatever else you may say about Feast of Love, it delivers on the promise of its title." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Female Trouble (1975) |
"A wonderfully wicked film celebrating two things the director has always found fascinating: crime and beauty." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"The thief isn't wicked enough to make a tasty antihero, the photographer isn't sleazy or sympathetic enough to evoke sympathy, and nobody else even registers." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
Festival Express (2004) |
"Joplin lends Festival Express the raw gravitas that pushes the doc into the realm of near-greatness." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
Festival in Cannes (2002) |
"The touch is generally light enough and the performances, for the most part, credible." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"Given the gift of the Sox's amazing ride of 2004, the filmmakers have ingeniously crafted a narrative that strings a romance along as a parallel to a widely remembered baseball season." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Fight Club (1999) |
"Awe and admiration." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C- |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"Gooding is off key and mugs and plops like a second-rate sitcom actor." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B+ |
Film Geek (2006) |
"Westby makes excellent use of Portland locations and cinematic references to make Film Geek a mostly spot-on, sometimes hilarious character study." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"It isn't Lumet's best work, but it does play to Diesel's peacock strengths. In fact, he carries the movie." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"More familiar in its story line and characters than previous Pixar films, it's nevertheless stuffed with wit, energy, charm and clever touches." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"Handsome, professional and dutiful, but it never feels inspired." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C- |
Firewall (2006) |
"It is -- almost two hours of people sitting around, staring at laptops and grunting, with occasional bursts of uninteresting violence that usually end with Harrison Ford falling down (or hitting someone with an appliance and then falling down)." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B |
First Descent (2005) |
"Vastly entertaining, [if] slightly overlong." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B+ |
The Five Obstructions (2004) |
"Rest assured that the film is as playful as it is thoughtful." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato A- |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"A finer tribute is hard to imagine." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
Flannel Pajamas (2006) |
"The incisive moments of recognizable humanity, though, are outnumbered by those of awkward obviousness." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C+ |
Flash of Genius (2008) |
"It will also make you realize that, no matter how noble, not everyone's life should be made into a movie." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato B |
Flicka (2006) |
"The filmmakers behind the sweet-hearted, mostly well-made family film Flicka know their target audience. In fact, they cater to it at the expense of the original book." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat |
Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
"Despite its occasional nods to flashy editing and pop scoring, Flight of the Phoenix ends up feeling like the sort of leisurely man's-man adventure movie you used to be able to catch on Sunday afternoon TV." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B- |
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) |
"Ultimately, it's hard not to feel like Hou is saying more explicitly and expansively in nearly two hours what Lamorisse managed to convey in only one-fourth as much film." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C+ |
Flightplan (2005) |
"But when the bottom falls, well, just hold on to the arm rests, suck hard on the oxygen mask and keep reminding yourself: It's only a (very silly) movie." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"Although there are wonderful moments to enjoy and a certain dry wit that's specifically French, and specifically Chabrol, the meandering story tests one's patience." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
The Fluffer (2001) |
"Though interesting ideas are at work here and some characters are lively, the film's too uninspired to get anywhere." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B+ |
Flushed Away (2006) |
"Brisk and clever and funny and avoids some of the predictable pitfalls that hobble so many films of its ilk." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
Focus (2001) |
"A little blurring here, less explicit sermonizing there and significant shades of gray throughout would have turned this film into something other than an exasperating jeremiad." |
Kim Morgan |
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