Tomato 4/4 |
Face Off (1997) |
"John Woo's Face/Off puts the acting into action flick..." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"Fluidly directed, superbly acted, boasting a story that wraps itself snugly around big emotional issues but stops just short of sentimentality." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"Less a movie than a montage, the swinging sixties shot in an arc both tiny and trite." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"The transplant didn't take in Barfly, and it works no better here in Factotum. In each case, the baying of the boozehounds just seems repetitious and banal -- the noise endures but the joy is gone." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Faculty (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"As an exercise in filmmaking, this picture bears a curious resemblance to the very debacle under review." |
Rick Groen |
Splat |
Fair Game (1995) |
"One could scavenge the thesaurus to find synonyms for 'awkward' to describe Crawford's performance." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Fallen (1998) |
"A human trifle that can be safely ignored in this eschatological genre." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Fame (2009) |
"There are six new songs in the remake, but not one makes any impact, or is likely to end up as the ring tone of 2010." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 3/4 |
Familia (2005) |
"A smart, well-modulated drama from first-time Quebec director Louise Archambault that packs a powerful after-effect." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Family Man (2000) |
"A series of moments, sentimental and comic, that never do add up to a coherent fable." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Family Motel (2008) |
"Family Motel uses fresh faces to show the domino effect of becoming homeless, revealing just how close many of us are to the edge." |
Jennie Punter |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"So check your disbelief at the door, bring along a mini-packet of Kleenex, and brace yourself for Two-Ply and the Family Stone." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fan (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Fanboys (2009) |
"Turns out there is something more annoying than an infatuated bunch of Star Wars nerds. Turns out a movie about an infatuated bunch of Star Wars nerds can really set your teeth on edge." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"As with the original Fantasia, the new film is a mixture of artistically respectable and mediocre moments, which for overall ambition and range, has no parallel in the world of contemporary animation." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"A not-so-bad mindless bit of camp escapism that doesn't try to eclipse its dime-store comic book roots." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Unlike the recent spate of blackened threequels, those bottom-of-the-bag Spideys and Shreks and Pirates and Oceans, this kernel does pop." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"The tale may be Dahl's, but there's a whole new wag to it -- this is decidedly, weirdly and, at best, wonderfully a Wes Anderson movie." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Moore, who has a particular genius for communicating compassionate, if not fully conscious characters, makes the pathos believable." |
Liam Lacey |
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Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Far Side of the Moon (2005) |
"The moon in Far Side of the Moon shows its smiling, symbolic face in the very first frame." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"Like Brian and Dom, Fast & Furious would benefit from more female company. And Vin Diesel's mumbling sulk gets to be a drag after a while." |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"Doesn't manage to deliver the wild ride it promises." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Anyone who still longs to see gaijin yahoos tear up Tokyo's streets will be appeased by the high-speed action in this perfunctory but reasonably efficient entry in the franchise spawned by the 2001 surprise hit The Fast and the Furious." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"A frustratingly toothless film whose heart is in the right place even if its head isn't." |
Jason McBride |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"A damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"It's sad to see a comic veteran like Cosby pimping out his own franchise for a quick buck. But perhaps a rich old guy can't live on Jell-O pudding ad residuals forever." |
Leah McLaren |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fat Girl (2001) |
"It's compelling, honest, poignant, somewhat sad and, at the end, very disturbing -- in short, quite a good movie." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fateless (2006) |
"Not only do the scenes set during the war develop a cumulative emotional power, but those in the war's immediate aftermath give us a glimpse into a truth seldom explored -- a truth that only a survivor can possess." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Father and Son (2004) |
"A tasty hors d'oeuvre while waiting for a really good French film to come along." |
Ray Conlogue |
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Father of the Bride Part II (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Father's Day (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
The Favourite Game (2003) |
"The movie is saddled with a first-person voice-over that makes the character a little more self-conscious and harder to take." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Fear Dot Com (2002) |
"The movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error.'" |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fearless (2006) |
"Perhaps predictably, the final work in Li's on-screen martial-arts career won't be the film to remember him by." |
Stephen Cole |
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Feast of July (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"There's an occasional scene that works -- a funny sequence where Bradley bargains for his dog with a kid -- but as the movie progresses, the melodrama is piled on with a bulldozer." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Felicia's Journey (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Female Perversions (1996) |
"The result is short on plot but long on observational detail and psychological resonance." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"A uniquely De Palma kind of effluence, an exercise in auteur self-parody." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"Pulled out of archives, garages and more than 30 years of legal limbo, about 70 hours of film have been carefully assembled into what amounts to a new rockumentary classic." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Festival in Cannes (2002) |
"A picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Fetching Cody (2006) |
"The final third of the script feels like an afterthought in a film that cannot bring any plausibility to its gritty setting nor its characters' plight because it began with an inherently sentimental plot device." |
Kate Taylor |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fever Pitch (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"Merely competent yet still capable of cracking the Friday lineup and playing to big crowds. If this same movie were a baseball player, it couldn't make the softball team in a sandlot league." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fidel (2002) |
"Has the kitsch appeal of a farm implement on a restaurant wall, or an Andy Warhol Mao poster: Interesting, but not for its original purpose." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fido (2007) |
"Leave It to Beaver and Lassie meet Night of the Living Dead." |
Jennie Punter |
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