Tomato |
F For Fake (1976) |
"Alternately superficial and profound." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
F.W. Murnau's Phantom (1922) |
"Somewhat stodgy in its seriousness, Phantom remains a secondary work by a great filmmaker." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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The Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (1988) |
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Fabulous Versailles (1954) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
A Face in the Crowd (1957) |
"Andy Griffith, as a hick radio star modeled on Arthur Godfrey, delivers an astonishing, sinister performance in Elia Kazan's 1957 essay on media demagoguery." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
The Face of Another (1966) |
"The theme is brilliantly and imaginatively explored, and the acting is potent." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato 3/4 |
Face Off (1997) |
"A dizzying, beautiful ride." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Face to Face (1976) |
"Ingmar Bergman at his most painful, pretentious, and empty." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Faces of Women (1987) |
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Pat Graham |
Splat 2/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Not everyone is crushed by fame, but almost everyone is flattened by it." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat 2/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"In cherry-picking the more filmable episodes from the novel, Hamer and Stark have constructed a sort of poor man's Barfly, with an emphasis on drunken mischief." |
J. R. Jones |
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Fag Hag (1998) |
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Splat |
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) |
"This 1966 film often looks good (it was Truffaut's first in color, photographed by Nicolas Roeg), but the ideas, such as they are, get lost in the meandering narrative." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"Little of this information is new, but Moore packages what's already known about George W. Bush and his presidency into a piece of rhetoric so persuasive that the Bush reelection campaign could spend the next five months trying to refute it." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"The movie's notion of humor is exemplified by Bradshaw's extended nude scene." |
J. R. Jones |
Tomato |
Fakin' Da Funk (1998) |
"Chey shows a keen ear for black English, a well-honed comic imagination, and an upbeat humanism; Zoltan David’s camera work is outstanding, especially the bravura Steadicam opening shot." |
Ted Shen |
Tomato |
The Fall (2008) |
"The girl and the hospital patients and staff also turn up in his improvised adventure, extravagantly garbed by costume designer Eiko Ishioka." |
Bill Stamets |
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The Fall of Otrar (1992) |
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Tomato |
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) |
"Corman's filmmaking runs on unchanneled energy and apocalyptic emotions; his is an art without craft." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Fallen (1998) |
"The first half of this movie holds some promise, but time is not on its side." |
Lisa Alspector |
Tomato |
Fallen Angel (1945) |
"The portrait of small-town loneliness and desperation is well and sharply drawn." |
Dave Kehr |
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Fallen Angels Paradise (2001) |
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J. R. Jones |
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Falun Gong's Challenge to China (2001) |
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Splat |
Fame (2009) |
"The high school is so sanitized that there are no drugs, cutthroat competition, or—inconceivably for a theatrical milieu—no gay students." |
Andrea Gronvall |
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The Family Game (1983) |
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Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Family Law (2006) |
"Admirably low-key, yet [director Daniel] Burman's relaxed approach becomes a liability -- everything goes down smoothly but leaves one hungry for something more substantial." |
Reece Pendleton |
Tomato |
Family Nest (1979) |
"This is strong stuff, but the highly formal director of Almanac of Fall, Damnation, and Satantango is still far from apparent." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
A Family Thing (1996) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Fanny and Alexander (1982) |
"The result is one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Fantasia (1940) |
"The concept and some of the episodes are tainted with kitsch, but there's no other animated film with its scope and ambition." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"The rest of these animated sequences depend on gimmickry, cuteness, or facile ideology." |
Lisa Alspector |
Tomato |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"Marvel Comics continues to empty out its stable of superheroes with this entertaining tale." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"The first movie's genesis story was more fun than the perfunctory doomsday scheme trotted out here." |
J. R. Jones |
Tomato |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"Like the rest of his movies, this one is essentially infantile -- but when you’re telling the story of a ne'er-do-well fox conspiring against a trio of nasty farmers, who cares?" |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
Fantastic Planet (1973) |
"The film has a flat quality that cannot entirely be overcome by the sensational animation and the obvious good intentions of its creators." |
Don Druker |
Tomato |
Fantastic Voyage (1966) |
"This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards; perhaps it's the screwball poetry of the plot." |
Dave Kehr |
- |
The Far Country (1955) |
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Dave Kehr |
Tomato 4/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Though less obviously a tour de force than many flashier recent art films, such as Alexander Sokurov's one-take feature Russian Ark, it's no less impressive as a technical achievement." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Far From Poland (1984) |
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Far North (1988) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Farewell My Concubine (1993) |
"This is entertaining filmmaking on a grand scale." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
A Farewell to Arms (1932) |
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Don Druker |
- |
A Farewell to Arms (1957) |
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Dave Kehr |
- |
Farewell, My Lovely (1975) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat 2/4 |
Fargo (1996) |
"Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way -- defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The Farmer's Wife (1928) |
"Hitchcock disliked the film, but it offers an unusual glimpse of the master before he settled into thrillers. Matters of marriage were always much on Hitchcock's mind." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"While few of the paper-thin characters register long enough to make much of an impression, Diesel carries the movie with his unsettling mix of Zen-like tranquillity and barely controlled rage." |
Reece Pendleton |
Tomato |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Despite all the silliness the drift races are gripping, and director Justin Lin captures Tokyo's energy and glitter far better than Sofia Coppola." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) |
"Was never all it was cracked up to be." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control (1997) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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