Tomato 3/5 |
Face Addict (2008) |
"Contemporary footage of various pseuds, wannabe artists and hangers-on fails to establish what made any of them interesting in the first place, and if you don't revere the cult of Warhol, the entire project looks quite pointless." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Factotum (2006) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
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Splat 1/5 |
Faintheart (2008) |
"A British underdog comedy of no great distinction." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"It's all quite harmless, the shape-shifting plot does not extend much beyond 90 minutes, and Alba still looks good in a jumpsuit. We've seen it before, we'll see it again." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"What the film lacks, for all its inventiveness, is the sense of menace and sadism that bristles through Dahl’s best stories." |
Geoffrey Macnab |
Splat 1/5 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
""Ride or die, remember?" Er, not really, no. More like "Yawn and forget", as Nabokov once recommended. Only 13-year-old boys and Jeremy Clarkson could possibly enjoy this." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"The stories lack shape, and the procession of famous faces detracts from the low-key, realist tone." |
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Splat 3/5 |
Fateless (2006) |
"Perhaps the fault lies more with Ennio Morricone's lavish, emotionally bullying music, which cancels out all the reticence and nuance of the script." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) |
"A kaleidoscope of phantasmagoria, some more disturbing than others." |
Andy Gill |
Splat 2/5 |
Fermat's Room (2008) |
"There's something dreadfully pedantic about this locked-room mystery." |
Anthony Kaufman |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009) |
"Sturgess is superb as the double-dealer, nailing the Ulster accent and conveying the self-disgust behind McGartland's cocky front; Kingsley too gives good value in one of his less showy roles." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Fighting (2009) |
"The brawls have a brutal energy, and Howard's performance is magnetic, but one gains little sense of character from the improvised dialogue or Tatum's sub-Brando mumbling." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
The Final Destination (2009) |
"The film-makers' inventiveness with each death is at once camp and heartless; every scene is so heavily loaded with the potential for violent calamity that after a while one's cynical laugh turns to a weary "whatever..."" |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"A nicely played family entertainment with perhaps more mystery than it knows what to do with." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Fine, Totally Fine (2008) |
"Perhaps it's a tad overstretched at 110 minutes, but the film's performances and the sly, satirical tone are unfailingly attractive." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"A puerile, remedial class version of Wedding Crashers." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Fireflies in the Garden |
"An agonisingly sincere drama of familial dysfunction, this is notable for some very basic miscasting." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Firm (2009) |
"Given that the original's on DVD, Love's done hooliganism, and the plot gets shut down just when it's getting interesting: why?" |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life |
"Bézançon handles the passage of time and the shifts of perspective quite adroitly, and creates a real sense of the characters as a family unit. His use of music is also inspired." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fish Tank (2009) |
"Arnold controls this simmering tension as adroitly as she did in her first film: it's a real skill to present quite unpleasant characters and then reveal them as vulnerable, even loveable." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fish Tank (2009) |
"Fish Tank is a kitchen sink drama with themes of alienation and sexual repression explored by a picaresque female protagonist." |
Kaleem Aftab |
Splat 2/5 |
Fissures (2007) |
"Having set up its line of murder suspects the film sheers off into supernatural hokum and never really recovers." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Flame & Citron (2008) |
"In its depiction of the crucial tests of nerve, and of their rooting-out of traitors, the film recalls L'armée des Ombres, which similarly examines the psychological conflict between killing and the gravitational pull of one's humanity." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Flanders (2006) |
"His camera, whether focused upon acts of horrific brutality or humdrum routine, maintains a steady, unflinching gaze. This, it seems to say, is life and death and nothing else." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Flawless (2007) |
"If only the plot was as sleek." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
Fly Me To The Moon (2008) |
"This 3D animation about a trio of pesky houseflies hitching a ride on Apollo 11 will give you a buzz only if you've missed the last 15 years of superior animations." |
Andy Gill |
Splat 2/5 |
The Flying Scotsman (2007) |
" It moves, but it never flies." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"The best jokes are the true jokes, and truth has not been best served here." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Fountain (2006) |
"Ambitious? You bet, but also a towering, tumultuous folly. It's the movie equivalent of a prog-rock double album, short on humour, long on pomposity, and as for what it all means - you might well ask." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Four Christmases (2008) |
"A fabulous cast is thrown away on forced gags; still, by the genre's standards the message is interestingly complex and ambivalent – pro-family, naturally, but with such qualifications that you almost feel it's sincere." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
The Fox and the Child (2008) |
"Kate Winslet does a syrupy voice-over to this bedtime story, but given what we know of foxes, it's a tough one to swallow." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Frankie (2005) |
"Fabienne Berthaud's low-budget squib tells us little we didn't know about the fashion industry, but does have Diane Kruger (Troy) as its luminous centre." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Franklyn (2009) |
"Allow that director Gerald McMorrow's feature debut shows ambition in fusing psychodrama, fantasy and metropolitan romance. Sadly, coherence and comprehensibility have been left for dead." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Fred Claus (2007) |
"The actual effect of films such as this, however, is to put you in an entirely non-Christmas, non-joyous and non-charitable mood." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Free Jimmy (2006) |
"The brief relationship that the escaped elephant forms with a resourceful moose is oddly touching, but the fatuities surrounding it ensure that any deeper involvement is unlikely." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009) |
"One or two amusing moments, but not sustainable for 90 minutes." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"One feels nagged all the way by its self-proclaimed momentousness." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Frozen River (2008) |
"A modest but thrilling drama." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"Jeremy Podeswa's tremulous adaptation of Anne Michaels's novel aches with earnest intent and tasteful eroticism, yet it moves as heavily and lugubriously as a prison gate." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Funny People (2009) |
"Vulgarity and sentimentality are set up in a fight to the death. I laughed a few times, mostly at Jonah Hill's nerdy but casual smarts." |
Anthony Quinn |
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