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Face (1997) |
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Splat 3/5 |
Face (2004) |
"With no access to these women's inner selves, we are left wanting at least a fuller portrait of their outer lives, some way to infer the meaning that the film declines to provide." |
Kerry Lengel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"There are two stories in Facing Windows, one of them profound and deeply moving, the other pure soap opera." |
Richard Nilsen |
Splat 2/5 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Director George Hickenlooper incessantly switches between black-and-white, grained-out, color-saturated, handheld and fuzzy shots. He's not so much making a movie as an audition tape for the cameraman's guild." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Factotum (2006) |
"While not really a complete film, Factotum functions as an atmospheric, diverting character study." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"Not a film to be ignored." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"The film goes a layer deeper than most formulaic chick flicks. It dabbles in the sociological aspects of why many present-day adults refuse to leave the nest, as well as the effect on aging parents." |
Kathy Cano Murillo |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"As a comedy, The Family Stone is more easy listening than rock-and-roll, but some of the performances (notably from McAdams and Nelson) are comfortable and affecting." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/5 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"The radiation-altered members of the Fantastic Four don't show their humanity. Rather, the superpowered quartet is little more than a bland collection of four-color caricatures." |
Michael Senft |
Splat 2/5 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Beyond a few good special-effects sequences - notably the Human Torch chasing the Silver Surfer between skyscrapers, the movie is uniformly vanilla. When the heroes aren't polishing their super-skills, they sit around and complain about their lot in life." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"Fantastic Mr. Fox may be the perfect kids movie for grown-ups." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Director Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow) goes back to basics, back to what everyone liked about the original, namely mindless car-racing fun." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/5 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"[A] sloppy, overarching fiction that tries to do too many things at once. It's like a three-ring circus in which none of the acts is terribly interesting." |
Randy Cordova |
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The Fast Runner (2002) |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"The movie ambles along at a pleasant, undemanding pace, with good-natured humor." |
Randy Cordova |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Fateless (2006) |
"A reflection of how its main character comes to experience reality, as one small moment between what came before and whatever horror or happiness is yet to come." |
Kerry Lengel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Fearless (2006) |
"Fearless is a graceful and tightly edited kung fu movie, though many of Li's gravity defying moves are assisted by wirework." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/5 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"Pretentious and precious." |
Kerry Lengel |
Splat |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"At least Femme Fatale has an apt title - "femme" because it's about a woman and "fatale" because it makes you want to jump out a window." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"A treasure for baby-boomer rockers and a miniature history lesson for younger music fans." |
Larry Rodgers |
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Festival in Cannes (2002) |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"A movie worth catching." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/5 |
Fighting (2009) |
"Too dumb to be taken seriously and too slow to be a fun and mindless B flick, Fighting ends up being not much of anything." |
Randy Cordova |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"Nothing in the movie is surprising, but it's all pleasantly undemanding, like watching a rerun of a familiar sitcom." |
Randy Cordova |
Splat 2/5 |
The Final Cut (2004) |
"It'll take more than a fancy computer chip to help me remember this one." |
Bill Muller |
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Final Destination 2 (2003) |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"Granted, nothing here is going to go down in history as a horror classic. But as far as dead-teen flicks go, this is one pretty lively affair." |
Randy Cordova |
Splat 2/5 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"Diesel isn't amusing, so he merely comes off as a showy actor in a bad wig." |
Randy Cordova |
Tomato 5/5 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"A fish story that hooks you from the opening scene." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"Forster builds on each scene, and the finale ... is quite moving." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/5 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"The problem with Fired Up is that it doesn't follow a simple rule of the genre: If you're going to make a raunchy teen sex comedy, go all the way." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 4/5 |
Firehouse Dog (2007) |
"The real question is: How does it go from setup A to inevitable payoff B? Answer: with humor, humanity and production values a cut above your average boy-and-his-dog movie." |
Suzanne Condie Lambert |
Splat 3/5 |
Firewall (2006) |
"As a techno-thriller, Firewall fails to surmount the obstacle that plagues such films: How do you make tapping at a computer interesting?" |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/4 |
First Daughter (2004) |
"A cinematic soufflé that refuses to rise." |
Randy Cordova |
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First Descent (2005) |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
First Snow (2007) |
"Offers the satisfaction of a compelling story well told." |
Kerry Lengel |
Splat 3/5 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"You could argue that the story is as much about the aftermath as the battle, but Eastwood still jumps around too much." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3/5 |
Flash of Genius (2008) |
"Kinnear captures both the distracted-genius absentmindedness of a man inspired and the crumbling psyche of a man possessed. It's easily Kinnear's best performance in years, maybe ever." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Flicka (2006) |
"Breathtaking scenery and the sweet story of a girl, her dad and a special horse make Flicka a worthwhile family flick." |
Annemarie Moody |
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Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Flightplan (2005) |
"Foster is believable, but casting her is like entering a Maserati in the soapbox derby." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"Each of the characters in the film is so real, so fully drawn, that you feel you know him or her as a person, not as fiction." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Flushed Away (2006) |
"With Flushed Away, Aardman [Animations] has moved away from a guy and his dog to a girl and her mouse, but they're almost just as fun." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/5 |
Flyboys (2006) |
"Near the start of Flyboys, the squadron's grizzled vet hands suicide pistols to the new pilots, to be used if they find themselves in a no-win situation. Unfortunately, the audience is offered no such option." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Fog of War (2003) |
"Offers a fascinating history lesson -- and one you'll probably never read in any book." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 1/5 |
Fool's Gold (2008) |
"The film exec who apparently thought that these two were the next Tracy and Hepburn was sadly mistaken. Heck, Matthew and Kate aren't even the new Frankie and Annette." |
Randy Cordova |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Foot Fist Way (2008) |
"Boasting outrageous laughs and a performance with real heart beneath its dim-bulb exterior, The Foot Fist Way is a ragged delight." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"For Your Consideration won't win an Oscar, but it probably will win some adulation from hard-core Guest fans." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato |
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) |
"If you're in touch with your inner 12-year-old, don't be surprised if you find yourself smiling and cheering during the film's final scenes." |
Randy Cordova |
Tomato |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a hilarious movie, a brilliant deconstruction of the romantic comedy, a film that, assuming you have the appropriate sense of humor, will make you laugh out loud again and again." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
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