Splat 2.5/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"As each incongruous motif is layered on like so much thematic frosting, the tummy ache grows." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Want to know Sedgwick? Listen to Dylan sing 'Just Like a Woman.' That's it -- in less than five minutes." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"Factotum, adapted and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer remains faithful to the source material, a plus if you appreciate Bukowski's deadpan, down-and-out writing." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Fade to Black (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"Scathingly funny and sometimes heartbreaking." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
" Yes, this is the most distasteful romantic-comedy idea since How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days -- which starred, come to think of it, McConaughey." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Faithless (2001) |
"It's impossible to turn your eyes away from." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
The Family Man (2000) |
"This predictable Christmas pudding actually possesses a little flavor, thanks almost entirely to its key performers." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"Moments of high hilarity and cringe-inducing honesty are scattered throughout The Family Stone." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Fanboys (2009) |
"Yawn; real fannish obsession can be much more absurd, and unsettlingly fascinating, than this burlesque ever gets." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"A good deal of fun." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"Devotes as much time to a creaky love triangle as it does exploring the fantastic powers of its foursome. And that begs the question: Who goes to a movie like this looking for what is essentially a bad episode of Dawson's Creek?" |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"While it's a little bit better than the first FF movie, this one trivializes the epic sci-fi stature of the story with the same bad acting, witless "witty" dialogue and drama-leeching tone." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"A lot is demanded of Julianne Moore, and she comes through with a performance of superhumanly controlled stylization." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"Compared to such wretched recent examples of the genre ... F&F is a mere fender bender as opposed to an inseparable, twisted steel smash-up." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Tokyo Drift has no story and no stars. That just leaves the rides, which are shiny and loud and fast and sometimes just as computer-generated as their counterparts in Pixar's Cars." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"The movie, unwieldy to begin with, completely loses its way after Kinnear exits." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"Fat Albert simply exists as a bone tossed to families starved for something they can watch together in movie theaters." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Fat Girl (2001) |
"The ending kind of ruined the film for me. Yet this astounding misstep cannot erase the insightful and courageous work that comes before it." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1/4 |
Fat Girls (2007) |
"Proof that straights have no monopoly on crass, lazy coming-of-age stories." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fateless (2006) |
"It's an astonishingly controlled performance by one so young, and Nagy's wraithlike but dogged appearance will be difficult to shake from any viewer's memory." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Father and Son (2004) |
"A magnificently shot exercise in tedium." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"Too eruditely loquacious for its own good." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fear and Trembling (2004) |
"Harrowing and hilarious." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) |
"This may not be everyone's idea of either scary or great animation, but it is a generally successful attempt to marry the two forms in a unique way." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"What's supposed to be a meditation on love plays out as a mere exercise in titillation. And that's not much of a feast. More like an hors d'oeuvre." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003) |
"A movie that will be treasured by those who love Fellini, just as surely as it will confound and bore anyone not particularly familiar with or fond of the great Italian director." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"What is it about Paris that brings out so much visual artistry in nearly great American filmmakers while making their storytelling instincts implode like a fallen souffle?" |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"Captures not only top-notch stage performances by some long-gone supertalents in their prime, but happy jamming and general good fun in the club cars between gigs." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Festival in Cannes (2002) |
"Those outside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really want to know." |
Valerie Kuklenski |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"The Farrellys, good New England boys that they are, revel in the baseball minutiae, right down to an opening flashback scene at Fenway Park that shows '70s stars Dwight Evans and Jim Rice during batting practice." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Fidel (2002) |
"Any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners, poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Fido (2007) |
"This Technicolor goof on parallel-universe nostalgia has a serious timing problem. It plays like a '50s sitcom, and not the good, I Love Lucy kind." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fierce People (2007) |
"The movie seems to want to play the social division card, but its better humanistic instincts undercut that ploy. It's enough to ruin Fierce People as an honest character drama, though." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Fight Club (1999) |
"The thing to keep in mind is, laugh." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"When anyone opens their mouth to sing, it's good; when anyone opens their mouth to talk, it's bad." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Final (2001) |
"The budget here was clearly miniscule, but others with less experience have certainly done more with less." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Final Cut (2004) |
"Naim has created a low-key mood piece that should have been more cutting." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Final Destination (2000) |
"The film is good, creepy fun." |
Glenn Whipp |
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Final Destination 2 (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 0/4 |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"An uninspired splatterfest that wears its vulgarity on its blood-caked sleeve and is cynical enough to use 9/11 in its vapid story line." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) |
"One could recommend the film to sci-fi fans for its groundbreaking look alone." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"It's a showboating role for Diesel, but it should also be noted that the actor brings a self-awareness to the character that cuts deeper than the comedy." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Finding Amanda (2008) |
"Writer-director Peter Tolan has glibness down pat, but can't quite wring the intended pathos from his characters' desperate lives. He does, however, give Broderick his best part since Election." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Finding Forrester (2000) |
"The film is so finely crafted that you don't really care that you've seen it (and not all that long ago) before." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"I really can't remember an animated feature in which the voice work sounded so accomplished, redolent with emotional subtleties and crack comic timing." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"Depp doesn't exactly give a great performance, but it is an accomplished one that keeps whimsy in balance with dark fears of failure and loss and, yes, having to grow up." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Firewall (2006) |
"What follows is supposed to be a gripping game of cat-and-mouse between hero and villain, but director Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) and first-time writer Joe Forte are only fitfully successful in ratcheting up the tension." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
First Basket (2008) |
"David Vyorst's comprehensive and celebratory documentary presents the stats in one easy-to-follow, nicely organized 86 minutes." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1/4 |
First Daughter (2004) |
"In case the one-note plot of this movie seems a little vague, let me reiterate: THE GIRL WANTS TO BE NORMAL, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE." |
Glenn Whipp |
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