Tomato |
F For Fake (1976) |
"Thanks, Criterion, for keeping the film's mystique of fakery alive." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
F For Fake (1976) |
"F for Fake is one of the more wistfully humorous of Welles’s wrestlings with reality." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Fabled |
"Fabled not only lacks contemporary and spiritual resonance but a satisfying closer." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Faces (1968) |
"Cassavetes was interested in actors and their freak-show intensities, and their performances give his films a hyper-real quality." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato |
Faces (1968) |
"People compare Cassavetes to jazz because his films are lively, vivid, and bursting with energy, and Criterion packs this two-disc set of Faces with extras bursting with vitality. Enthusiasts will be pleased." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Facing Windows (2003) |
"Ozpetek's "fairy tale" hopes to get by on the good looks of its actors alone." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Factory Girl (2007) |
"A spectacle of bad accidents, VH1 aesthetics, sketchy (almost nonexistent) period detail, and armchair psychology." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Factotum (2006) |
"Flip on the Independent Film Channel any day of the week, any hour, and chances are you'll find a movie like Factotum." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fados (2009) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"If Fahrenheit 9/11 feels like a work in progress, that’s only natural—by film’s end, you get a sense that it'll never be finished until George W. Bush is too." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"It didn't fail at the box office, but there's no reason you should help launch its DVD afterlife." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"Failure to Launch is a not-so-distant cousin of those happy-go-lucky herpes commercials that play on television--it's so far out it scans as science fiction." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fakers (2004) |
"This idiotic crime comedy begins as a heated Sophia Petrillo flashback only to continue as a lobotomized Guy Ritchie caper." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Fall (2008) |
"Shunning logic and compassion, The Fall is a bedtime story impeccably designed to flatter its own maker." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
The Fall (2008) |
"A long, long trip through the museum" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 0/0 |
Fall Down Dead (2009) |
"Another serial killer movie...and this one's so bad it reaffirms how often we take even mediocre pictures for granted." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fall of Fujimori (2006) |
"Covers much of the same terrain as Pamela Yates's State of Fear but with considerably less insight." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) |
"Through kaleidoscopic composition, Epstein affects Rorschach-like chiaroscuro, every image a dense, sludgy viscera, a looking glass held up to the audience and characters, daring us to pass through." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) |
"Put bluntly, the difference between El Cid and Fall is the difference between faith in a concept of heroism that can transcend even death." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) |
"The HBO series may have orgies on its side, but Mann's underappreciated epic goes deeper and darker into the fall of Rome." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Fallen Angel (1945) |
"This underrated noir drama deserves to get out of Laura's shadow." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fallen Angel (1945) |
"Its subtle analysis of shadowy tropes proves both a continuation and a deepening of Preminger's use of moral ambiguity as a tool of human insight." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2/4 |
Falling (2007) |
"Meanders forward with little apparent direction and virtually no interesting drama." |
Nick Schager |
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Falling (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Fame (2009) |
"Like its gifted if excitable protagonists, Fame would have done well to stay in the classroom a bit more, rather than trolling the New York streets." |
Matthew Connolly |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Family Jewels (1965) |
"With The Family Jewels, Lewis seems more willing than ever to acknowledge his own hostility towards being dismissed as a kids’ entertainer." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Family Law (2006) |
"Burman's vision veers dangerously close to the apathetic, but his actors bring heart to a film that blares with fine details." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Family Nest (1979) |
"The characters morph into unconvincing mouthpieces for a highly unsubtle political critique." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat |
Family Nest (1979) |
"You'll want to fly out of this Nest, pronto." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3/4 |
Family Plot (1976) |
"It's a movie that's haunted by death, with lengthy sequences played out in cemeteries." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato |
Family Plot (1976) |
"A minor but worthwhile swan song for Hitchcock." |
Dan Callahan |
Splat 1/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"A rank slice of Christmas cheese.
" |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fanboys (2009) |
"The crude-dude genre staples are mechanically rendered: gay panic in a biker bar, mescaline-fueled dreams, highway chases, and cancer." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"Chris Evans may not win an Oscar for his performance in Fantastic Four, but I see an AVN award in his future." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"A wasted opportunity to breathe fresh life into the Marvel universe's long-stodgy elder statesmen.
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Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"As far as minor triumphs go, at least Story's disposable film is shrewd enough to understand, embrace, and then stay true to its iconic comic book source material's lighthearted spirit." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"Anderson prizes the funny over the profound to an extent that keeps the proceedings a tad too light and jovial to register as anything more than a lightweight aside to his more acute, earnest work." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"This remarkable film's final shot evokes a changing season and perhaps a changing cultural tide." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Far Side of the Moon (2005) |
"In essence, Lepage has remade 2001: A Space Odyssey without the Kubrick film's sense of spiritual curiosity." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
A Farewell to Arms (1932) |
"Cooper and Hays bring Borzage's liking for towering, vulnerable men and tiny, tough women to its visual apotheosis (her head barely reaches his armpit when they walk)." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato |
A Farewell to Arms (1957) |
"To those willing to endure A Farewell To Arms: Don't be a hero!" |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
A Farewell to Arms (1957) |
"We have David O. Selznick to blame for this bloated two-hour-plus Technicolor remake." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
Fargo (1996) |
"Do you have to be a Minnesotan to really get Fargo?" |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Fargo (1996) |
"Fargo is the Coens' most ice-cold satire, but also features its warmest character." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"Removing the "the" from its predecessors' title not once but twice, Fast & Furious's abbreviated moniker harkens back to the series's 2001 original while simultaneously expressing a tough curtness that marks it as its own model." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"Similar to its two predecessors in melodrama and gloss, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift follows in its own tradition of quality." |
Sara Schieron |
Tomato |
Fast Company (1979) |
"Fast Company may not be much more than a footnote in Cronenberg's career, but this disc is a must-own for followers of his work." |
Matt Noller |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fast Company (1979) |
"Fans of well-crafted B movies, on the other hand, will be right at home." |
Matt Noller |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"There are plenty of blasé attitudes about the companies who provide our burgers and fries, and with Fast Food Nation, there's one more diffident voice to join the chorus." |
Preston Jones |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Fast Runner (2002) |
"The Clan of the Cave Bear has nothing on Atanarjuat, a sprawling three-hour epic that recounts the primal struggles of the Igloolik people." |
Ed Gonzalez |
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