Splat 2/4 |
Face (2004) |
"Well made, nice performances, very slowly paced." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Facing the Music (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"Gentle and life-affirming, if too sentimental in the end." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato A- |
Factotum (2006) |
"Factotum is so sly and low-key hilarious that anybody can be in on the joke." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 4/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"'I fulminate, you decide' could be [Moore's] motto." |
David Sterritt |
Splat D+ |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"The title of the movie could also serve as its review." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
Faithless (2001) |
"A probing look at love, marriage, fidelity, rivalry, and other deep-rooted emotional issues." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B- |
The Fall (2008) |
"Some of the set pieces are ravishing, more often they're ravishingly clunky." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 2/4 |
Fallen (1998) |
"Fallen will sell tickets on the strength of its appealing cast and high-impact camera work, but will probably fade from the scene more quickly than its demonic villain does in the story." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"Could we please declare a moratorium on funny-sad movies about dysfunctional families, especially families that come together for the holidays?" |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C- |
Fanboys (2009) |
"Fanboys doesn't delve into the mania of fandom, it exploits it." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
"Has plenty to offer." |
David Sterritt |
Splat 2/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"It's fun to watch superheroes who aren't quite at ease with their abilities, but The Incredibles -- last year's similarly themed animated film -- is livelier and funnier." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B- |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"As summer franchise superhero flicks go, it's tolerable." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 4/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"One of those rare movies that works superbly well on more than one level." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 4/4 |
Farmingville (2004) |
"Illuminating and alarming." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C+ |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Fans of the series will find lots to like in the almost nonstop racing action of this third installment. Let's hope they heed the don't-try-this-at-home warning at the end of the film." |
M. K. Terrell |
Tomato A- |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Viewers expecting a blistering attack on the fast-food business, or an Altmanesque panorama, will be disappointed, but it's a sensitive and humane piece of work." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"There's never been a movie quite like it." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato A |
Fateless (2006) |
"This is a Holocaust movie that is so relentlessly observed and so aware of woe that it never feels like it belongs to a genre." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 4/4 |
Father and Son (2004) |
"Like most of Sokurov's movies, this oblique parable is mysterious, elliptical, irresistible." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B- |
Fay Grim (2007) |
"For most of the way Fay Grim is a very dry slice of deadpan humor." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 2/4 |
The FDNY Dream Bike - In Honor Of Gerard Baptiste (2004) |
"Lightweight, sentimental, sweet." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 4/4 |
Fear X (2003) |
"This thriller is ingeniously woven with motifs suggesting the difficulty of seeing and understanding truth, and substitutes psychological chills for commonplace gore." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B+ |
Fearless (2006) |
"This painterly film is a fitting finale to Li's long career in film and as a real-life wushu expert." |
M. K. Terrell |
Tomato B- |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"The fine cast, which includes Jane Alexander, Selma Blair, and Radha Mitchell, is also somewhat underused." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 2/4 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"It's far from a great movie, but there's nothing like it on the current scene." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Festival Express (2004) |
"Full of bright colors, offbeat people, tuneful sounds." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Festival in Cannes (2002) |
"It's a loosely strung movie about self-absorbed people in a money-driven world -- and as uninviting as that sounds, it's one of the season's most watchable treats." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"The film centers on someone obsessed with a sports team, but the story's universality lies in the way that it can act as a metaphor of a variety of stumbling blocks in a relationship." |
Stephen Humphries |
Tomato B- |
Fido (2007) |
"This spoof of 1950s attitudes is also a witty commentary on 21st-century issues such as homeland security and illegal immigration." |
M. K. Terrell |
- |
Fight Club (1999) |
"Ever since he appeared in Fight Club, and more recently Snatch, Brad Pitt has been trying to lose his image as Mr. Cool." |
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Fight Club (1999) |
"Ever since he appeared in Fight Club, and more recently Snatch, Brad Pitt has been trying to lose his image as Mr. Cool." |
David Sterritt |
Splat |
Fight Club (1999) |
"Undermines any seriousness it might have harbored with an avalanche of smirky cynicism designed to flatter the hipper-than-thou fantasies of adolescent moviegoers." |
David Sterritt |
Splat F |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"Not having seen Final Destination (1 or 2), I am perhaps not in the best position to judge Final Destination 3. On the other hand, I know a stinker when I see one." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C |
The Final Season (2007) |
"Sports more baseball clichés than Scarface had swearwords." |
Robert Newton |
Tomato B- |
Find Me Guilty (2006) |
"Peter Dinklage is excellent as the mob's chief lawyer." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"The best animated underwater picture since The Little Mermaid." |
Gregory M. Lamb |
Tomato 3/4 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"Forster keeps the picture as a whole in perfect tune with Depp's approach, and he gives the story a compellingly dark atmosphere." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C |
Fired! (2007) |
"Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen and has been making something of a cottage industry out of the experience ever since. Having written a book about being fired, she has now made a documentary as well, and it's something of a mess." |
Peter Rainer |
- |
Firelight (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Sterritt |
Splat C- |
Firewall (2006) |
"Filmmakers who want to make new-style scare-fests should not be thinking old style." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B+ |
First Basket (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
First Daughter (2004) |
"This storybook tale shares a similar plot to last winter's Chasing Liberty, but it's more believable and the father-daughter scenes are sometimes touching." |
M. K. Terrell |
Tomato B |
First Descent (2005) |
"The hardy fools -- I mean, visionary pioneers -- in this movie are so gravity-defying that I had to look at the press notes afterward just to make sure no computerized special effects were used." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) |
"So many movies set in Northern Ireland are about the Troubles that we might justifiably ask, why another? Five Minutes of Heaven is far from the best of the breed, but it does at least take a new tack." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Five Obstructions (2004) |
"Funny, ornery, and ultimately inspiring." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B+ |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"Clearly Eastwood wants the story of what happened to these men to resonate as much for our own era as for theirs. It's a movie about the toll that heroism extracts in a wartime culture ready-made for heroes." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B |
Flawless (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B |
Flicka (2006) |
"A movingly told variation on an old story." |
M. K. Terrell |
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